LIVINGSTONIA—BLAN TYRE — Q UILLIMANE. 431 
“ Oil! ” was tlie answer, “ poor B-was eaten by a 
crocodile not long ago, while bathing in a river near the 
north end of the lake. He was with Captain P-, 
the elephant hunter ; but before assistance could be 
given, the monster had carried him to the middle of the 
water, all the time holding him up to the view of his 
horrified friends. Then the brute dived under the 
water with his prey, and nothing more was seen.” 
Inquiring about the white sails which now and again 
at Livingstonia gave me so many false hopes when they 
hove into view in the horizon, I was told that in all 
probability they belonged to large dhows sailing between 
Makinjira’s and Mpemba’s for war purposes. On getting 
this piece of news I had little difficulty in coming to 
a conclusion as to why the Angoni would not take me 
to Mpemba’s village, which in my ignorance I was 
endeavouring to get at, with a view to canoeing to 
Livingstonia.* 
The greatest slave ferryman, I was told, was Jumbe, 
at Kota-Ivota, who builds large dhows for this special 
traffic, the sails being made of American sheeting, which 
is a strong kind of calico sold by Arab slavers. Jumbe’s 
vessels take their human cargoes to Lozewa on the 
eastern shores of the lake ; whence they go directly 
eastward to the coast. Most of the slaves from 
Mpemba’s, however, passed round the southern end of 
the lake to Mponda’s on the Shire, which they cross, 
and go straight to Mataka’s, a notorious slaving centre, 
about a day’s march to the north-east. The Universities 
Mission once had a station here; but through the 
ill-timed zeal of an Englishman, who released a caravan 
of Mataka’s slaves near the sea coast, that chief re¬ 
taliated by robbing the station while the missionary 
fled to Zanzibar. 
“ This,” continued my informant, “ is one of the 
dangers of thoughtlessly releasing slaves. By so doing, 
* Becently I have learned that the forces of Makinjira and Mpemba 
actually met in deadly conflict, Mpemba being killed. Makinjira dying- 
soon afterwards, the oracles and witches of Mpemba say that his death 
occurred because he had killed their chief. 
