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THE LAST TEARS OF LIVINGSTONE.
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slave trade, and adroitly let the odium rest on their Arab
agents.
The Banians will not harm a flea or a mosquito, but my
progress in geography has led me to the discovery that they
are by far the worst cannibals in all Africa. They com¬
pass, by means of Arab agents, the destruction of more
human lives for gain in one year than the Manyuema do
for their flesh-pots in ten.
The matter of supplies and men was unwittingly com¬
mitted to these, our Indian fellow-subjects, who hate to
see me in their slave market, and dread my disclosures on
the infamous part they play. The slaves were all imbued
with the idea that they were not to follow but force me
back ; and after rioting on my goods for sixteen months
on the way, instead of three, the whole remaining stock
was sold off for slaves and ivory.
Some of the slaves who came to Manyuema so baffled
and worried me, that I had to return between 500 and
600 miles.
The only fhelp I have received, except half a supply
which I despatched from Zanzibar in 1866, has been from
Mr. Stanley, your travelling correspondent, and certain re¬
mains of stores which I seized from the slaves sent from
Zanzibar seventeen months ago, and 1 had to come back
300 miles to effect the seizure.
I wait here—Unyanyembe—only till Mr. Stanley can
send me fifty free men from the coast, and then I proceed
to finish up the geographical part of my mission.
I come back to the slavery question, and if I am per-