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two certainly flow north, and two as certainly flow south ; 
for Palmerstone’8 fountain on the southwest is the source 
of the Liambai or Upper Zambesi, and Oswell’s fountain 
on the southeast, is the Kafue, which far down joins tho 
same river in “ Inner Ethiopia.” 1 advance the conjecture 
merely for what it is worth, and not dogmatically. The 
gentlemen who stay at home at ease may smile at my as. 
surance in recalling the memories of boyhood in Central 
Africa; but let these be the sources of the ancients or not, 
it seems desirable to rediscover them, so that no one may 
come afterwards and cut me out by a fresh batch of sources. 
I am very unwilling to attach blame to any one, and I 
can only ascribe it to ignorance at Zanzibar of our Govern- 
ment being stringently opposed to its officers employing 
slave-labor, that some five or six hundred pounds’ worth 
of my goods were entrusted to Ludha, a concealed slave- 
trader, who again placed the supplies in tho hands of slaves 
under the two dishonest freemen, who, as I have described 
in my letter of the 14th ult., caused me a loss of time and 
ultimately of all the goods. 
Again, £501) of goods — this being half of £1000 kindly 
sent by Her Majesty’s Government to my aid — was, by 
some strange hallucination, handed over to Ludha again, 
and he again committed them to slaves and two freemen. 
All lay feasting on my stores at Bagomoyo, on the mainland 
opposite Zanzibar, from the latter part of October, 1870, 
to the latter part of February, 1871, and no one looked 
near them. They came on to Unyanvembc, a point from 
twenty days to a month east of this, and lay there till a 
war, which broke out in July, gave them a good excuse to 
continue there still. Ludha is a very polite and rich Banian, 
but in this second bill he made a shameless overcharge of 
$364. All the Banians and Arabs hate to see me in the 
slave-mart and dread exposure. Here and in Manyema I 
have got into the good graces of all the Arabs ot position. 
But the Banian hatred of our interference in the slave- 
trade manifests itself in the low cunning of imbruing the 
