Sequasha And His Mate
Had Left Their Ivory In Charge Of Some Of Their Slaves, Who, In The
Absence Of Their Masters, Were Now Having A Gay Time Of It, And
Getting Drunk Every Day With The Produce Of The Sacked Villages.
The
head slave came and begged for the musket of the delinquent ferryman,
which was returned.
He thought his master did perfectly right to
kill Mpangwe, when asked to do it for the fee of ten tusks, and he
even justified it thus: "If a man invites you to eat, will you not
partake?"
We continued our journey on the 28th of June. Game was extremely
abundant, and there were many lions. Mbia drove one off from his
feast on a wild pig, and appropriated what remained of the pork to
his own use. Lions are particularly fond of the flesh of wild pigs
and zebras, and contrive to kill a large number of these animals. In
the afternoon we arrived at the village of the female chief, Ma-
mburuma, but she herself was now living on the opposite side of the
river. Some of her people called, and said she had been frightened
by seeing her son and other children killed by Sequasha, and had fled
to the other bank; but when her heart was healed, she would return
and live in her own village, and among her own people. She
constantly inquired of the black traders, who came up the river, if
they had any news of the white man who passed with the oxen.
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