Matumora asked if the people through whose country I had come would preserve the peace I wished.

He says he has been assailed on all sides by slave-hunters: he alone has never hunted for captives: if the people in front should attack me he would come and fight them: finally he had never seen a European before (Dr.Roscher travelled as an Arab), nor could I learn where Likumbu at Ngomano lives; it was with him that Roscher is said to have left his goods.
The Mazitu had women, children, oxen and goats with them.

The whole tribe lives on plundering the other natives by means of the terror their shields inspire; had they gone further down the Rovuma, no ox would have survived the tsetse.
_20th May, 1866._--I paid Ali to his entire satisfaction, and entrusted him with a despatch, "No.

2 Geographical," and then sent off four men south to buy food.

Here we are among Matambwe.