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THE VALUE OF SLAVES IN BRACELETS. 
other head men, advanced to the people of Nyangwe twenty- 
five copper bracelets to be paid for in ivory on their return. 
The rings were worth about five shillings at Ujiji, and it 
being well known that the Nyangwe people had no ivory, 
the advance lias a mere trap ; for, on returning and de- 
manding payment in ivory in vain, they began an assault 
which continued for three days. All the villages of a large 
district were robbed, some burned, many men killed, and 
about one hundred and fifty captives secured. 
On going subsequently into southern Manyema 1 met 
the poorest of the above mentioned head men, who had 
only been able to advance five of the twenty-five bracelets, 
and he told me that he had bought ten tusks with part of 
the captives ; and having received information at the vil- 
lage where I found him about two more tusks, ho was 
waiting for eight other captives from Muhamed’s camp to 
purchase them. I had now got into terms of friendship 
with all the respectable traders of that quarter, and they 
gave information with unrestrained freedom; and all I 
state may be relied on. On asking Muhamed himself, after- 
wards, near Ujiji, the proper name of Muhamed Nassur, 
the Indian who conspired with Shereef to interfere his own 
trade speculation between Dr. Kirk and me, and defray all 
his expenses out of my goods, he promptly replied, “ This 
Muhamed Nassur is the man from whom I borrowed all 
the money and goods for this journey.” 
I will not refer to the horrid and senseless massacre 
which I unwillingly witnessed at Nyangwe, in which the 
Arabs themselves computed the loss of life at between three 
hundred and four hundred souls. It pained me sorely to 
let the mind dwell long enough on it to pen the short ac- 
count I gave, but I mention it again to point out that the 
chief perpetrator, Tagamolo, received all his guns and 
gunpowder from Ludha Damji, the richest Banian and 
chief slave-trader of Zanzibar. He has had the cunning 
to conceal his actual participation in slaving, but there is 
not an Arab in the country who would hesitate a moment 
