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saw. These home-bred slaves in manhood become cap¬ 
tures, hunting on behalf of their masters in the human 
preserves. No doubt the conscience of the Angoni is 
sufficiently elastic to let him, at a pinch, sell his own 
kith and kin; but generally speaking this is rarely 
done. 
When a full complement of men and women have 
been gathered, the export caravan is made ready for the 
road. The men are coupled by the yokes being lashed 
so as to form a rigid pole, binding the pair from neck to 
neck together. With loads on their heads, they then 
turn their faces to the eastward, and leave their homes 
for ever. 
At last, with the help of the friendly Da Costa, Mr. 
Kerr succeeded in getting away from Chikuse’s, and 
made his way to Lake Nyassa. After crossing the 
Rsvuqwe river, he goes on to say : 
A few hours’ steady marching over bare ground, 
studded with chips of disintegrated granite, winding 
amidst which I could discern numerous paths well worn, 
doubtless by the journeys of the slave caravans, and 
branching in all directions, brought us to the environs of 
another village, which nestled in a small clump of copse- 
wood. ddie main trail of the paths I refer to went in a 
northerly direction, almost parallel with the mountain 
chain. I am inclined to believe that the larger portion 
of the slaves taken from Angoni-land go to Jumbes, at 
Kota-Kota on the lake ; thence they are ferried over to 
the eastern shore, and begin their march to the coast, 
loaded with ivory. 
The men were some distance ahead of me, because I 
had made a short detour, my curiosity having been 
aroused by the appearance of a number of slave yokes 
scattered about on one side of the trail. Examining 
these, I found that two were broken, but from their ap¬ 
pearance I was convinced that no long time had elapsed 
since they had been employed in their torturing work. 
On the spur of the moment, I thought I would endeavour 
to take one of the yokes with me as a trophy ; and 
shouldering one instantly I ran on, but soon became 
