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DYING UPON ONE’S FEET. 
to tell them that the English had no desire for h'..man 
blood. They begged hard that I should go over with them, 
and settle with them, and arrange where the new dwellings 
of each should be. I was so ashamed of the bloody Mos- 
lem company in which 1 found myself, that I was unable 
to look at the Manyema. I confessed my grief and shame, 
and was entreated, if I must go, not to leave them now. 
Dugtimbe spoke kindly to them, and would protect them 
as well as ho could against his own people; but when I 
went to Tagamolo, to ask back the wives and daughters of 
some of the head men, he always ran off and hid himself. 
This massacre was the most terrible scene I ever saw. I 
cannot describe my feelings, and am thankful that I did 
not give way to them, but by Dugumbe’s advice, avoided a 
bloody feud with men who, for the time, seemed turned 
into demons. The whole transaction was the more deplora- 
ble, inasmuch as we have always heard from the Manyema, 
that though the men of the districts may be engaged in 
actual hostilities, the women pass from one market place to 
another with their wares, and were never known to bo 
molested. The change has come only with these alien blood- 
hounds, and all the bloodshed has taken place in order that 
captives might be seized where it could be done without 
danger, and in order that the slaving privileges of a petty 
Sultan should produce abundant fruit. 
Heartsore and greatly depressed in spirits by the many 
instances of “ man’s inhumanity to man,” I had unwillingly 
seen, I commenced the long, weary tramp to tljiji, with the 
blazing sun right overhead. The mind acted on the body, 
and it is no overstatement to say that almost every step of 
between four and five hundred miles was in pain. I felt as 
if dying on my feet, and 1 came very near to death in a 
more summary way. It is within the area of bloodshed that 
danger alone occurs. I could not induce my Moslem slaves 
to venture outside that area or sphere. They knew better 
than I did : “ WaN Mohammed not the greatest of all, and 
their prophet ? ” 
