As It Had Not Been Free-Trade There,
Cazembe Did Not See Why It Should Be Free-Trade At His
Town;
he accordingly would not allow his people to furnish the party with food
except at his price; and the
Expedition, being half starved in consequence,
came away voting unanimously that Cazembe was a great bore.
When we left the Loangwa we thought we had got rid of the hills;
but there are some behind Mazanzwe, though five or six miles off
from the river. Tsetse and the hills had destroyed two riding oxen,
and when the little one that I now rode knocked up, I was forced
to march on foot. The bush being very dense and high,
we were going along among the trees, when three buffaloes,
which we had unconsciously passed above the wind, thought that they were
surrounded by men, and dashed through our line. My ox set off at a gallop,
and when I could manage to glance back, I saw one of the men up in the air
about five feet above a buffalo, which was tearing along with
a stream of blood running down his flank. When I got back to the poor fellow,
I found that he had lighted on his face, and, though he had been carried
on the horns of the buffalo about twenty yards before getting the final toss,
the skin was not pierced nor was a bone broken. When the beasts appeared,
he had thrown down his load and stabbed one in the side.
It turned suddenly upon him, and, before he could use a tree for defense,
carried him off.
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