. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa. t messages to Chirikalomaexplanatory of my friendly deed to his relative, so that nomisconstruction should be put on my act. We passed a slave woman shot or stabbed through thebody and lying on the path: a group of men stood about ahundred yards off on one side, and another of women on theother side, looking on ; they said an Arab who passed earlythat morning had done it in anger at losing the price hehad given for her, because she was unable to walk anylonger. 21th June.—To-day we came upon a man dead from star-vation, as he was ver
. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa. t messages to Chirikalomaexplanatory of my friendly deed to his relative, so that nomisconstruction should be put on my act. We passed a slave woman shot or stabbed through thebody and lying on the path: a group of men stood about ahundred yards off on one side, and another of women on theother side, looking on ; they said an Arab who passed earlythat morning had done it in anger at losing the price hehad given for her, because she was unable to walk anylonger. 21th June.—To-day we came upon a man dead from star-vation, as he was very thin. One of our men wandered andfound a number of slaves with slave-sticks on, abandonedby their master from want of food; they were too weak tobe able to speak or say where they had come from; somewere quite young. We crossed the Tulosi, a stream coiningfrom south, about twenty yards wide. At Chenjewalas the people are usually much startledwhen I explain that the numbers of slaves we see dead onthe road have been killed partly by those who sold them,. 1806.] A MARAUDING PARTY. 63 for I tell them that if they sell their fellows, they arelike the man who holds the victim while the Aral) performsthe murder. Chenjewak blamed Machemba, a chief above him onthe Eovuma, for encouraging the slave-trade; I told himI had travelled so much among them that I knew all theexcuses they could make, each headman blamed some oneelse. It would be better if you kept your people and cultivatedmore largely, said I, Oh, Machemba sends his men androbs our gardens after we have cultivated, was the man said that the Arabs who come and tempt themwith fine clothes are the cause of their selling: this waschildish, so I told them they would very soon have none tosell: their country was becoming jungle, and all their peoplowho did not die in the road would be making gardens forArabs at Kilwa and elsewhere. 28th June.—When we got about an horn- from Chen-jewalas we came to a party in the act
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