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A trader’s massacre. 
Dugumbe’s people built their huts on the right bank of 
the Lualaba, at a market place called Nyanwe. On hearing 
that the head slave of a trader at Ujiji had, in order to get 
canoes cheap, mixed blood with the head men of the 
Bagenya on the left bank, they were disgusted with his 
assurance, and resolved to punish him and make an impres- 
sion in the country in favor of their own greatness, by an 
assault on the market people, and on all the Bagenya who 
had dared to make friendship with anybody but them- 
selves. Tagamolo, the principal undertrader of Dugumbe’s 
party, was the perpetrator. The market was attended 
every fourth day by between two and three thousand 
people. It was held on a long slope of land which, down at 
the river, ended in a creek capable of containing fifty and 
sixty large canoes. The majority of the market peoplo 
were women, many of them very pretty. The people west 
of the river brought fish, salt, pepper, oil, grass cloth, iron, 
fowls, goats, sheep, pigs, in great numbers, to exchange 
with those east of the river, for cassava, grain, potatoes, 
and other farinaceous products. They have a strong sense 
of natural justice, and all unite in forcing each other to 
fair dealing. At first my presence made them all afraid, 
but wishing to gain their confidence, which my enemies 
tried to undermine or prevent, I went among them fre- 
quently, and when they saw no harm in me, became very 
gracious ; the bargaining was the finest acting I ever saw. 
I understood but few of the words that flew off the glib 
tongues of the women, but their gestures spoke plainly. 1 
took sketches of the fifteen varieties of fish brought in, to 
compare them with those of the iNile, further down, and all 
were eager to tell me their names. But on the dato re- 
ferred to, I had left the market only a minute or two, when 
three men, whom I had seen with guns, and felt inclined to 
reprove them for bringing them into the market place, but 
had refrained by attributing it to ignorance in new comers, 
began to fire into the dense crowd around them. Another 
party, down at the canoes, rained their balls on the panic- 
