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LIVINGSTONE ON THE ZAMBESI 
tant notes out of long tin horns. They seemed to feel that they were 
doing a very noble thing, and might proudly march with an air of 
triumph. But the instant the fellows caught a glimpse of the English 
they darted off like mad into the forest/' This was certainly a com¬ 
pliment to the nation which Livingstone represented, and one which 
would never have been paid to the Portuguese. The slaves were 
/released from their chains, and taken charge of by the mission. 
A few days afterwards the mission fixed their first station at 
Magomero, the town of the chief Chigunda, and which lay on the 
eastern slope of the Zomba range; and the members of the expedition 
bade them farewell. By way of parting advice, and in answer to an 
inquiry of the Bishop's as to his protecting vi et armis the Manganjas 
from the marauding Ajawa, Livingstone declared most emphatically 
that such a policy would lead to mischief. “You will be oppressed by 
their importunities, but do not interfere with native quarrels." Had 
such advice been heeded, the troubles which subsequently beset the 
mission would probably have been avoided. 
On leaving the mission at Magomero, the Doctor with Charles 
Livingstone and John Kirk started for Nyassa. The “Pioneer" was 
left at Chibisa’s, at the foot of the Murchison Cataracts, and a small 
boat was carried along the banks for some forty miles until they could 
put it on the upper Shire. Thence they proceeded to the Nyassa, arriv¬ 
ing at the lake on the 2d of September. The months of September 
and October which Livingstone spent on the lake were stormy, and 
these mountain ranges drew down upon its surface fierce and sudden 
gusts of wind. The squalls would come with a sudden rush, only 
discernible by the white line of leaping breakers before they swooped 
down upon the small boat with a roar, and often was Livingstone 
caught and detained on his detour of the lake by these dangerous 
storms. 
“Never before in Africa," he writes, “have we seen anything like 
the dense population on the shores of Lake Nyassa. In the southern 
part there was an almost unbroken chain of villages. On the beach of 
well-nigh every little bay dark crowds were standing, gazing at the 
novel sight of a boat under sail; and wherever we landed we were 
surrounded in a few seconds by hundreds of men, women, and children, 
