[The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone]@TWC D-Link book
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

CHAPTER XIII
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Burukinegge land is the boundary between the people of Kavirondo and the Gallahs with camels and horses.
_9th November, 1868._--Copied several Notes written at Kizinga and elsewhere, and at Kabwabwata resume Journal.

Some slight showers have cooled the air a little: this is the hottest time of the year.
_10th November, 1868._--A heavier shower this morning will have more of the same effect.
_11th November, 1868._--Muabo visited this village, but refuses to show his underground houses.
_13th November, 1868._--I was on the point of starting without Mohamad Bogharib, but he begged me not to go till he had settled some weighty matter about a wife he is to get at Ujiji from Mpamari; we must have the new moon, which will appear in three days, for lucky starting, and will leave Syde bin Habib at Chisabi's.

Meanwhile two women slaves ran away, and Syde has got only five back of his twenty-one fugitives.
Mullam was mild with his decisions, and returned here; he informed me that many of Syde's slaves, about forty, fled.

Of those who cannot escape many die, evidently broken-hearted; they are captives, and not, as slaves often are, criminals sold for their guilt, hence the great mortality caused by being taken to the sea to be, as they believe, fatted and eaten.

Poor things! Heaven help them! Ujiji is the pronunciation of the Banyamwezi; and they call the people Wayeiye, exactly as the same people styled themselves on the River Zougha, near Ngami.
[It will be remembered that several of his men refused to go to Lake Bangweolo with him: they seem now to have thought better of it, and on his return are anxious to come back to their old master who, for his part, is evidently willing to overlook a good deal.] I have taken all the runaways back again; after trying the independent life they will behave better.


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