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thence ascend through Lake Lincoln to the ancient foun- 
tains beyond the copper mines of Katauga, and this would 
nearly finish my geographical work. But it was so proba- 
ble that the dyke which forms the narrows would be pro- 
longed across the country into Lomame, that I resolved to 
turn towards this great river considerably above the nar- 
rows, and where the distance between Lualaba and Lomame 
is about eighty miles. 
A friend, named Dugumbc, was reported to be coming 
from Ujiji, with a caravan of two hundred guns and nine 
undertraders, with their people. The Banian slaves refused 
duty three times, and the sole reason they alleged for their 
mutiny was fear of going where “there were no Moslems.” 
The loss of all their wages was a matter of no importance 
to any one except their masters at Zanzibar. As an Eng- 
lishman, they knew I would not beat or chain them, and 
two of them frankly avowed that all they needed for obedi- 
ence was a free man to thrash them. The slave traders all 
sympathized with them, for they hated my being present 
to witness their atrocities. The sources of the Nile they 
knew to be a sham ; to reveal their slaving was my true 
object, and all dread being “ written against.” I, therefore, 
waited three months for Dugumbe, who appeared to be a 
gentleman, and offered 4000 rupees, or £400, for ten men 
and a canoe oil Lomame, and afterwards all the goods I 
believed I had at Ujiji, to enable me to finish what I had to 
do without the Banian slaves. His first words to me were, 
“ Why, your own slaves are your greatest enemies. 1 hear 
everywhere how they have baffled you.” He agreed to my 
proposition, but required a few days to consult his asso- 
ciates. 
Two days afterwards, or on the 13th of June, a massacre 
was perpetrated which filled me with such intolerable loath- 
ing that I resolved to yield to the Banian slaves, return to 
Ujiji, get men from the coast, and try to finish the rest of 
my work by going outside the area of Ujijian bloodshed, 
instead of vainly trying from its interior outwards. 
