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himself with slaves. Msidi at once ordered this nephew to go and 
attack a powerful tribe to the north of his territory, who had long 
defied him, as the only way of redeeming his character for bravery. 
And he declared that cowardice alone had led his nephew to 
attack the undefended Lamba people. 
Large numbers of slaves are brought into the capital every 
year by returning war parties, and are sold chiefly to Arab traders 
from Zanzibar and to Ovimbundu traders from Bihe. Strong 
young men have been sold for ten or twelve yards of cotton 
cloth. Children able to walk are perhaps worth a little, but 
infants are considered a drug in the market, and it is generally to 
the advantage of the slave dealers to make away with them. 
They will not often allow a mother to carry her own child, think- 
ing to employ her more profitably by making her carry ivory or 
food j and so these little ones are generally cast out to the hyenas 
or thrown into the rivers. 
The careworn appearance that is very common among middle-aged 
women is here shown. 
