450 
RETURN TO THE SHIP. 
people ; they are ashamed of it, and say they sell only 
criminals, but others are really sold. The price of a man 
is four yards of cotton cloth, three for a woman, and two 
for a child ; the victims are taken to the Portugueso 
at Mozambique, Iboe and Quillimane. 
The Manganja were more suspicious and less hospitable 
than the tribes on the Zambesi. They disbelieved the 
objects of the expedition, ascribing naturally to the party 
their own motives. From the numbers of aged people 
met on the highlands, and the increase of mental and 
physical vigor experienced by the members of the party in 
passing from the lowlands to the highlands, it was inferred 
that the climate was salubrious, and fitted for Europeans. 
The stay at the Lake was short ; and on the 6th of Octo- 
ber, 1859, after a land journey of forty days, the party 
returned to the ship. 
CHAPTER XXXY. 
DOCTOR LIVINGSTONE REACHES THE VICTORIA FALLS. 
Having sent back to England for another steam launch, 
Ma Robert having been found unfitted for the purpose in- 
tended, the expedition did not get ready to start again 
until May. The Makololo, whom Dr. Livingstone had 
brought back with him from his expedition of 1856, as 
told in Chapter XIII., and who had remained near Tette 
during his absence in England, and to whose guardianship 
and services were due the accomplishment of the journey 
we have just narrated, which all the Portuguese at Tette 
had previously pronounced impossible, were uow to be 
carried to their homes. Some of these Makololo had 
formed domestic ties, and preferred to remain. On the 
15th of May, the expedition started, only one wornaa 
