He Was Three Days North-East Of Nusseewa, And On
The Arab Road Back To The Usual Crossing-Place Of The Rovuma, When He
Was Murdered.
The murderers were seized by one of the chiefs, sent
to Zanzibar, and executed.
He is said to have kept his discoveries
to himself, with the intention of publishing in Europe the whole at
once, in a splendid book of travels.
The chief of the village near the confluence of the Lake and River
Shire, an old man, called Mosauka, hearing that we were sitting under
a tree, came and kindly invited us to his village. He took us to a
magnificent banyan-tree, of which he seemed proud. The roots had
been trained down to the ground into the form of a gigantic arm-
chair, without the seat. Four of us slept in the space betwixt its
arms. Mosauka brought us a present of a goat and basket of meal "to
comfort our hearts." He told us that a large slave party, led by
Arabs, were encamped close by. They had been up to Cazembe's country
the past year, and were on their way back, with plenty of slaves,
ivory, and malachite. In a few minutes half a dozen of the leaders
came over to see us. They were armed with long muskets, and, to our
mind, were a villanous-looking lot. They evidently thought the same
of us, for they offered several young children for sale, but, when
told that we were English, showed signs of fear, and decamped during
the night.
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