One chief asked to have his wife and daughter restored to him first, but generally they were cowed, and the fear of death was on them.

Dugumbe said to me, "I shall do my utmost to get all the captives, but he must make friends now, in order that the market may not be given up." Blood was mixed, and an essential condition was, "You must give us chitoka," or market.

He and most others saw that in theoretically punishing Manilla, they had slaughtered the very best friends that strangers had.
The Banian slaves openly declare that they will go only to Lomame, and no further.

Whatever the Ujijian slavers may pretend, they all hate to have me as a witness of their cold-blooded atrocities.

The Banian slaves would like to go with Tagamoio, and share in his rapine and get slaves.
I tried to go down Lualaba, then up it, and west, but with bloodhounds it is out of the question.