The treatment of the slaves witnessed by my men certainly did not raise slaveholders in their estimation.

Their usual exclamation was "Ga ba na pelu" (They have no heart); and they added, with reference to the slaves, "Why do they let them ?" as if they thought that the slaves had the natural right to rid the world of such heartless creatures, and ought to do it.

The uneasiness of the trader was continually showing itself, and, upon the whole, he had reason to be on the alert both day and night.

The carriers perpetually stole the goods intrusted to their care, and he could not openly accuse them, lest they should plunder him of all, and leave him quite in the lurch.

He could only hope to manage them after getting all the remaining goods safely into a house in Cabango; he might then deduct something from their pay for what they had purloined on the way.
Cabango (lat.