How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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Every
Step He Takes, Armed Or Unarmed, Is Fraught With Danger.
The
Waseguhha, near the coast, detain him, and demand the tribute,
or give him the option of war; entering
Ugogo, he is subjected
every day to the same oppressive demand, or to the fearful alternative.
The Wanyamwezi also show their readiness to take the same advantage;
the road to Karagwah is besieged with difficulties; the terrible
Mirambo stands in the way, defeats their combined forces with ease,
and makes raids even to the doors of their houses in Unyanyembe;
and should they succeed in passing Mirambo, a chief - Swaruru -
stands before them who demands tribute by the bale, and against
whom it is useless to contend.
These remarks have reference to the slave-trade inaugurated in
Manyuema by the Arabs. Harassed on the road between Zanzibar and
Unyanyembe by minatory natives, who with bloody hands are ready
to avenge the slightest affront, the Arabs have refrained from
kidnapping between the Tanganika and the sea; but in Manyuema,
where the natives are timid, irresolute, and divided into small
weak tribes, they recover their audacity, and exercise their
kidnapping propensities unchecked.
The accounts which the Doctor brings from that new region are most
deplorable. He was an unwilling spectator of a horrible deed - a
massacre committed on the inhabitants of a populous district who
had assembled in the market-place on the banks of the Lualaba, as
they had been accustomed to do for ages. It seems that the
Wamanyuema are very fond of marketing, believing it to be the
summum bonum of human enjoyment.
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