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NATIVE MARKETS. 
joke, and laugh, and cheat, seem the dearest enjoyments of 
life. They confer great benefit upon each other. The 
Manyema women are expert divers for oysters, and they 
sell them and fish in exchange for farinaceous food from 
the women in the East, the Lnalaba, who prefer cultivating 
the soil to fishing. The Manyema have always told us that 
women going to market are never molested. When the 
men of two districts are engaged in actual open hostilities, 
the women passed through from one market to another un- 
harmed. To take away her goods, even in war, was a thing 
not to be done ; but at these market women the half-castes 
directed their guns. 
Two cases that came under my own observation were so 
sickening that I cannot allow my mind to dwell upon them, 
or write about them. Many of both sexes were killed, but 
the women and children were chiefly made captives. No 
matter how much ivory they obtained, these nigger Moslems 
must have slaves, and they assaulted market people and vil- 
lages, and made captives chiefly of women and children ; as 
it appeared to me, and because as men ran off at the report 
of guns, they could do it without danger. I had no idea 
before how bloodthirsty men can be, when they can pour 
out tiie blood of their fellow-men in safety ; and all this 
carnage is going on in Manyema at the very time 1 write. 
It is the Banians, our protected Indian fellow-subjects, that 
indirectly do it. All we have conceded the Sultan of Zan- 
zibar has been a right which it was not ours to give, of a 
certain amount of slave trading, and that amount has been 
from 12,000 to 20,000 slaves a year, as we have seen. These 
are not traded for, lint murdered, for they are not slaves, 
but free people made captive. A Sultan with a sense of 
justice would, instead of taking head money, declare that 
all were free as soon as they roacbed his territory ; but 
Banians have the Custom House and all the Sultan’s reve- 
nue entirely in their hands. He cannot trust his Moham- 
medan subjects, even of the better class, to farm the in- 
come; because, as they thejnselves say, he would get noth- 
