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1st June 1866 - The
men came back from
15the Metambwe with a
quantity of sorghum &
rice & beans but
grain is not abundant
sepoys not come
20yet - It is regular
0027
mutiny on pretence of
being unable to march
Put our cloth into smaller
bales for carriage - and
5removed outer cases from
powder

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2d June 1866 - Ngomano

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0028

3d June 1866 - the cow
buffalo died yesterday
evening - fell down &
foaming at the mouth
5expired - o{T}he wound on
the shoulder had broken
the bone - scapula ridge -
meat looks nice & fat
a little glairiness & injection
10of cellular tissue on affected
leg - I sometimes think it
maybe tsetse & sometimes
not = perplexed - Meat is
relished by Shupanga &
15Johanna men & it roasts
nicely -

I have thought of going
back disarming the sepoys
and sending the ringleader
20away but this will be
called persecution &
0029
#may be disapproved of
by the military authorities
in India = On the other
hand they may use their
5arms on the Makonde
in a way that may
bring disgrace on the English
name - but if they do
not come the sixten miles
10at which they have stood
for a week, then I shall
leave them & go forward
upon the whole they
have been a nuisance
15& have done little else than
eat - if I had known
their language it might
have been different but
ready translators were
20ever present in the
Nassick boys

0030

Asked Matumora if
the Matambwe prayed to
God - He replied that they
did not know him, and
5I was not to ask the people
among whom I was
going if they prayed to
Him because they would
think that I wished them
10to be killed - told him we
loved to talk about him
He had given us his own
son and he loved us &
loved to know that
15we talked about him -
He said that when they
prayed to God they offered
a little grain ^ or meat & then prayed
but did not know
20much about him - They
have great reverence
for his name & the
deliberate way in which
they say we dont know
0031
him is to prevent any
irreverent speaking about
him - (Mulungu) it may
injure the country -

5

4 June 1866 Leave Ngomano
and march 1 ¼ to rest
nineteen carriers have
the luggage donke & mule
go empty - Nassick boys
10carry + 1 ¼ = 2 ½ hours

Andrew bale
James Rutton bale
Baraka bale
Reuben bale
15Simon
Mabruki
Gardener bale

To retrieve wages from
this time forward of ten
20Rupees per month from

4th June 1866

0032
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0033
{figure}
0034
Engaged at Ngomano -
[4th
June] P Mandikelala bale
P chañkoma         red beads
5P Ntambo           bale
P Kantota         bale
P Balalo         bale
P Gombegane coffee & beans
P Makolonga powder big
10P Makolonga tea & beads
P Injunje kerin beads & carp bag
P chiringa bale
P Mpelepele small powder
P Ilenga           provisions
15P Kantanoe big bale
P Kirapuela # Powder
P Monda sugar & flour
P Kapunda big Powder
P Machinga bale
20P Kontumbre bale
0035
P Ngalale bale

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5th June 1866 We
slept at Lamba a vil-
5on banks of Rovuma
here a brawling torrent
some 200 yards wide
with many islands
and rocks in it.
10country open scraggy
forest with patches
of cultivation but at
present all is dry &
withered partly from
15drought & partly from
winter's cold - The
carriers dawdle &
complain of hunger

Sit an hour and then
20go on leaving main
path we missed them - When
they would not move
0036
[  ] our party forward
to the next village but
they went on to a garden
and I [ ]{f}ound them all
5crunching sorghum stalks
like a lot of cattle - Went
on 3 hours then wait
for carriers at a Makoa
village by a sand stream
10see first good ripe sorghum
here but drought has pre-
vailed also = 3 + ¼ hours
When the common dura
fails to ripen seed then
15it becomes the so called
sorghum saccharatum
and so with the tame
or native Pumpkin
a bastard sort is the
20result & it is very
inferior

0037

The markings on the
faces & bodies constitute
a sort of heraldry - Each
tribe has its own distinctive
5markings and in the
case of the Matambwe they
resemble the old Egyptian
figures for gardens and
trees & water = The Makoa
10have the half moon on
the forehead and other
parts - at times it is made
like a horse shoe in middle
of forehead or stomach
15{figure} {figure} or

0038

[ ]e can see great masses
of mountains on our
N.W. They are said to be
inhabited by Makoa -
5#The syenite was both
yesterday & today tilted up
towards the East and men
I see detached blocks of
basalt = six sided prisms &c
10and a gray substance
flows from the syenite
which shews no disposition
to burn - 8 miles to Mekosi vil.

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15

6th June 1866. We left vil
called Mo{e}kosi & marched
quickly one hour to Sangesi
a large sand stream - the
country stoney but all the
20hollows are cultivated
There are now many
good timber trees among
the otherwise scrappy ones -

0039

We find 2 half caste [      ]
traders on banks of the
Sangesi - an hour &
a ¼ of quick walking
5- The men in a sort
of trot brought us to
Makochera = 2 ¼ hrs
at least = 7 miles
found him a merry
10laughing mortal without
anything like good looks
to recommend his
hearty laugh - a low
forehead flat nose of the
15Assyrian type rather
and a big mouth - ivory
in person - complains
of the Machinga a Waiyau
tribe on North of Rovuma
0040
[    ] stealing his people - told
him all had the same com
-plaint and if we went to
the other side we should
5hear the same complaint
against him - advised
him to keep his people
He said they needed cloth
Why not plant more cotton
10and spin it - that he
honestly admitted was
painful work as a
reason for not doing
and so you prefer the
15pains of slave trading
operations in his country
He wished to be cured of
a hernia Ingualis in
order to be able to go &
20fight the Machinga.

0041

7th at Makochera[ ]
we remain because we
have two Nassick boys
still behind us and we
5have to lau{y} in a stock
of food for the way
to Metaba or Metawa - -
sent off the 2 Shupangu
men to buy food
10We can get no fowls
nor any animal food
except what turtle doves &
guinea fowls we can
shoot.

15{figure}
0042
{figure}

Rovuma must be 2'
North of this now -
The Havildar - two sepoys
5& Abraham came up
today - Report that the
sepoys whether from
illness or skulking come
only to Matumora's
10and ask for orders -
I replied that as they had
in defiance of the orders
given at Bombay made
an offer to Ali to take
15them to the coast and
I knew they had been
skulking I had no more
to say to them

0043

Richard ill at a [      ]
East of Ngomano - sent
off Simon - Reuben & Mabruki
with tea and sugar & a little
5spirits & quinine & a little
bread part of flour & part
of sorghum meal to him
[The] last camel died at Ngoman[ ]
[-] could purchase no food
10here so we sent to another
village - the same scarcity
prevails & we must go
forward tomorrow to
Matawa or Mataba's

15

# [7th] Strong South winds
with driving clouds
for two days after a
slight shower on the
5th       colder too -

20

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8th June 1866 - We
were obliged to send away
to buy food instead of
0044
[    ]ing for Metaba -
Musa got a bag of sesamum
seeds which are eaten &
being fatty preserve the
5strength - Suzi small bag Mapira

Makochera says that
his fathers came from
the the Makoa of the S.E
He remarked that God
10was not good because
he killed so many
people - Was afraid
to give me a specimen
of song - none of his
15forefathers had seen
the sight he now sees
a white man - Dr Roscher
if he came here was not
different in appearance
20from an Arab trader

0045
    9th at Makochera
P Arimome   bale
P Dogolo        bale
P Nampanyue
5P Ntangaria sesam and beads
P Ntakosia bale
P Ibela              big bale
P Kabangola bale
P Chiaola Red beads
10P Kapolo coffee & bag
P Likianda bale
P Mandumba bale
P Malota carp bag
P Mangozi bale
15    Mohaka big Powder box
P Lipandula prow & sail
P Chipungwa powder box
P Monyau flour & sugar
0046
P [  ]paola beads
P Ntumbati powder boxs
P Mavnda bale
P Masanyelo bale
5P chiomba tea box & bag

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9th June 1866 We
marched 3 hours
through scraggy open
10forest with here &
there a big tree - but
the more scraggy were
in general so close as to
shut out this view
15of large masses of
granitic hills on the
North - only an occasional
glimpse of them could
be obtained - Trees shew
0047
some altitude - soil [      ]and
many parts stoney -
grass & plants cover
all but the grass is
5short & in tufts - as we
came near water the
birds began to sing
At a spring called
Lokolo we have large
10granitic masses shot
up - 200 feet above path
#Tsetse biting the mule
& buffalo calf = 4 ½ + ½
= 5 hours

15

Passed a recently dead person
on the road - said to be hunger.
We passed through a
defile between two hills
one on the East Ngandango
20that on the West Njengo
both granitic & almost
bare with flakes peeling off

0048
{figure}

trees shutting out base
outline of Njengo hill - covered with a light grey
grassy looking plant except here & there some few trees
5about 700 feet above plain         of the
                                                                above
                                                                Hill
                                                                7500 yds
                                                                South

10{figure}
0049
{figure}
{figure}
0050

10th June 1866 We have
had a very hard days
march - not a human
habitation appeared in
5the wide waste of open
forest - Here and there
a dry water course
was crossed and we
obtained water by digging
10but it is probable
that at certain times
these are all dry and
the people dependant
on the Rovuma alone
15the first symptoms
of human habitations
being near was a little
good looking woman
at a well - on
20giving me water she
knelt down and gave
0051
it as country good man
-ners always require
with both hands - We
were misled by one of
5the carriers and went
a long way round through
the rounded mountain
mass at which this
village abuts was quite
10visible - We had a tramp
of five hours 4 ½ of
which count as distance
I came in very tired
having eaten nothing
15since last night - When
an Arab party which
was here heard of our
approach they decamped
instanter

0052
{figure}
0053
{figure}
5

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[1] Mataba - 1 day - sleep & arrive
next - chiefs name is
Kinazombe = Kambuire = Kambuire ^ (Namalo)   (Makval)
an Arab finished food there
10 [2] Machinga Mtarika = Rice - 4 days off
(Masusa North of Mtarika = food)
[3 Do] Chekapotwe - sleep once
has food =
[4] Mataka = Moyar Melolo = desolated
15about ten days journey
{figure}
0054

11th June 1866. carriers
refuse to go on because
say they "When we return
we shall be seized here
5and sold as slaves" - No
food can be bought. The
chief difficulty at present
arises from the famine.
{figure}
all the hills about are
of the rounded granitic
form with great scales
peeling off & covered
15with light grey grassy
plants Mabvin is near
Ngozo

0055

An Arab slave trader ha[ ]
bought up at{l}l the provisions
at Metaba and here at
Ngozo hill we cannot
5buy even with our
best cloths.

{figure}

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                People all armed
10                with guns as if the
                slave trade prospered
                here - women
                wear the finest
                beads

15

We got a supply of
sorghum at a very
high price - carriers
still maintain
0056
they only fear being
plundered by the
inhabitants of this
village on their return
5from Metaba & sold
as slaves -

#Engaged in writing
a despatch on the
slave trade of Zanzibar

10

12th June 1866 -
Paid off Makochera's
people - according to
all information there
is no possibility of
15going round North end
of Nyassa - a path
named Ndila or Mdila
has been shut up by
Mazitu - told so by
0057
{figure}

---

an intelligent man who ^ added
that Rovuma rose from
5fountains among mountains
near to Nyassa but
not in the Lake itself

---

13         Makoloya = &{or}
-impandola visit
10us to day - wishes to
make friends and
when we return he
will have food to
give us - asked some
15questions -- Heard
of the Bible

0058

14th I am as much
dependant on carriers
as if I had never
bought a beast but
5in time our goods
will diminish so
that we can p{c}arry
all ourselves - the
carriers are not un-
10willing but they dawdle
This is the best time
for travelling being
quite cool in morning
and evenings --

15

We set off with our
own people at 10 AM
leaving Musa to bring
the goods if the chief
furnished the men
0059
on 15th the chief came
along way with us &
promised to get the men
need as soon as he
5got back - The rounded
masses are over 2000
feet in altitude & some
seemed 3000 and with
nothing scarcely except
10that grassy looking
plant - We passed over
many masses of
ferruginous conglomerate
and the gneiss lies
15dipping to the Westward
and the striae look as
if the whole mass
when tilted a{u}p that
way had been in a
20semi molten state or
been reduced to that
state afterwards

0060

We slept by Rovuma
a short distance above a
cataract - a still reach
about 150 or 200 yards
5wide allowed a school
of Hippopotomi to live
but they were wild &
as the River is said to be
fordable in many parts
10in August & September
they must find it difficult
to live - a great many of
the people have guns
This is the slave route
15and it is astonishing
to see the numbers of taming
sticks lying on the side
of the path taken off -
as the poor victim became
20hopeless of escape -
0061
    We were marching 3 hours

15th     Rovuma bends
Southwards out{now} - Its
greatest Northing must
5have been at Ngozo
People come in numbers
to see the English - some
give presents of corn
or honey - another three
10hours march brought
us to Kinazombe's or
Metaba = He is an elderly
man with Assyrian
nose - country richer
15and maize is much
grown - a second crop
is now ready for
being eaten green - We
were presented with a
20basket of it & some
sesamum seed which
when toasted & pounded
tastes much like Haggis

0062

16th June 1866 at
Metaba or Kinazombe's.
This{e} cattle in Africa
are but partially tamed
5and never give their
milk without the
presence of their calves
or their ^ stuffed skins if they are
dead "Tulchans"--
10the women about
Mosambique partake a
little of the wild character
for like the inferior
animals they refuse
15their husbands all
intercourse immediately
on pregnancy taking
place - and they
continue this avoidance
20of the male for about
0063
three years afterwa[   ]
or until the child is
weaned = Mr Soares
told me that many
5fine young native
men marry & live
happily & properly with
the one wife till she
becomes pregnant -
10she then leaves him
and as the separation
is for at least three
years he is almost
obliged to take up with
15some other woman -
the same absurdity pre
-vails on the West Coast
and there the men are said
to acquiesce in the
20separation from notions
of cleaness & uncleaness

0064

It is curious that trade
Rum forms one of the
most important imports
on the West Coast
5it is almost unknown
on the East Coast
to the North of Lat. 10º S.
one might imagine
that the Arab religious
10convictions had
something to do with
it but the Portuguese
began the trade on
both coasts and they
15continue what trade
exists South of the same
latitude with certainly
no scruple or conscience
to interfere with what
20might bring large
gains - they have
0065
also erected distilleries
and many half castes
of that nation distil
a vile spirit from the
5cashew fruit = and
from Pombe - they
give their slaves potions
of spirit too as rewards
"Mata bicho" or kill the
10creature or longing in the
stomach is the
name they give to a
drachm. Yet the Rum
is not sought after by
15pure natives with any
thing like the eagerness
with which it is demanded
on the West -     There
it seems indispensible
20to every transaction -
Here the people will take it
if I{g}iven for nothing only
0066
Nor would the Moslems
abstain from trading
with it if it were profitable
they frequently asked me
5for brandy in a sly
way - as medicine -
although they could not
have been told that we
had a stock for we had
10only three bottles at
starting - It is something
in the genius of the
people quite inexplicable
All through the part
15of the country we have
come Hernia Humoralis
prevails the people think
from beer drinking
then again we have
20children in arms and
[an] other at the knee or
a child about two years
0067
old & pregnancy very
frequently appears -

Kinazombe gives a dismal
account of the country in
5front but tinged with
"buy all you need here."
He and others say that
it is impossible for us
to get carriers because
10all are dying of want
Away to the South the
country is all desolated
by the Makoa slave wars
This is the case as far as
15they know the country -
In their ideas all fled
to Rovuma and left
a country without an
inhabitant - For ten
20days beyond Mtarika
it is Jungle & no people
0068
Mataka is within 2 or 3
days of the Lake & there
plenty abounds - We
must go back & bring our
5things from Kitwanga's
come here and go again
forward to Mtarika's
4 days distant =

Met three half caste
10Arabs who say that
they are looking for
ivory & will go back
from this point - They
heard of Syed Majid's letter
15of which I am the bearer

18th June 1866 - We
came back to Ngozo by a
hard march of six hours
yesterday - The Wanindi
20of the North bank of the
Rovuma tried to cross
over to eat the corn of
0069
the Ngozo people so we
were just in time to
inspire heart - Ngozo
people fired two shots
5at the Wanindi while they
were in the water and this
made them change their
intention but they will
cross further down -
10They pretend to be Mazitu
but are a Wayau tribe?

Found that six sepoys
had arrived - Their conduct
has been utterly bad - &
15mutinous - I had them
up this morning and
it will not do any longer
to be mild with them
so I made preparations
20for flogging some of them
The Corporal has been
seriously defective in
his duty so I addressed
0070
[      ] Asking if he knew
the punishment for mutinous
conduct - and a number
of other questions - He
5assumed or really felt
tremor all over - Had
nothing to urge in excuse
except sickness which
to my certain knowledge
10was pretended - Asked how
he reconciled the plea of
sickness with eating heartily
three times a day The
others had something of the
15same way of speaking
#I disrated the Naik       or
corporal on this the 18th
June - and sentenced
them all to perform
20fatigue duty by carrying
a bundle - This is more
for their own health
0071
than anything else for
their limbs become
contracted by sleeping all
day - one is left behind
5at Ngomano with
thighs swollen the
others say from want
of use - They leave
each other without
10any compunction -
Have left two com
-panions near to this -
they left Richard to
die near to Ngomano
15#I promised fatigue
duty pay if they
behaved well but
none if they con
ducted themselves ill -
20and flogging if guilty
of lying down to sleep
in the march
0072
Richard Isenberg died
at a village below Ngom
-ano = He took to the sepoys
latterly very much - sitting
5& talking with them
instead of with the
other Nassick boys-
Then when I left the
party I saw no more
10of him - I did not
like to see him associated
with sepoys whose talk
is none of the best
but refrained from
15reproof because not
knowing the language
I could not be certain
When he came to Pa-
-chassane's he was too
20weak to go further - I only
knew of him being weak
and as he was with the
0073
sepoys who were [      ]all
skulking on pretense of
sickness felt no anxiety
about him = Abraham
5found him at a village
above Pachassane's &
came on to tell me now
at Makodiera's that
Richard was alone &
10very weak - left by the
sepoys - I at once
sent back cordials &
three Nassick boys to bring
him up - but when
15they came to the spot
they found that he
had died two days after
Abraham left = The
people were not friendly
20and demanded 3 cubits of
calico for their trouble
with him - the other lads
did not see his grave -

0074

Saw a telegram today
"Your mother died at
^ noon on the 18th June "65
which affected me not
5a little - This day twelve
months she entered into
rest -

19th gave sepoys light
burdens in order to inure
10them to weight This
day their pay begins
Passed the humiliating
spectacle of a woman
tied by neck to a tree
15and dead - Had been
unable to keep up with
the other slaves of a gang
& master determined she
should not after rest
20escape anywhere -

0075

20th June 1866 - We
came back to Metaba
this morning & found
headman Kinazombe
5very unwilling to do
anything to aid us
forward on our way
He has hold of all the
grain & we cannot
10deal with anyone
but himself & he
have ample supplies
of powder cloth &
beads from Arabs
15in exchange for sl[ ]{a}ves
we have no chance

It is hard to feel
charitably towards the
sepoys whose game
20or aim seems to
0076
have been to detach
first the Nassick
boys then the Johanna
men and of course
5leave me alone to perish
They tried to prevail
on the boys to desert
and one "Kurrim"
is actually behind at
10Ngomano with
swollen thighs the
effect of inaction
But I shall try to be
as charitable as I can
15in spite of it all - Told
the Havildar what I had
done and that I was
very angry as never
an unkind word
20had crossed my lips
0077
to them though they
had compassed my
failure if not death

21{0}st{th} We were told by
5Kinazombe that our food
could be had in front
this was false but we
purchased as much
as we could & very
10dearly - This was his object
in telling lies - got three
of his men to carry
and they lied like their
master when we got
15to a village 3 hours off
but I paid them in full
rather than get a bad
name - bought a senze
dried ^ on a stage over the fire - A
20party met us & almost
0078
[            ] Kinazombe's men to
flight by their mere appear
ance - Then this morning
21st June 1866 a great deal
5of firing took place - we waited
to see if it meant anything
but it did not, except that
all were excited & none
would carry - marched 3
10hours to a long island in
Rovuma called Chmiki
where the people Makoa
were decidedly civil - The
Wai[ ]{y}au have all been
15greedy & not good mannered
sent 5 men back thence
to bring up Havildar & the
goods left & came onto
Chirikaloma's village
20whole march 3 hours

0079

22d June 1866 - The [      ]
sent back arrived about
noon but the Havildar
told them to sleep there and
5they could not & returned
He has gone on the plan
of letting his men do as they
pleased when I was out of
sight - Hence his want of
10power among them = We
have but little corn and the
Havildar remained with it
allowing his men to revel in
it

15

A poor little boy having
prolapsus ani was carried
by his mother many a weary
mile yesterday lying over
her right shoulder for ease
20An infant at the breast
occupied the left arm
and on her head were placed
two baskets - A mothers love
was seen in binding up
25the part when we halted and
0080
[            ] arseness of low civilization
in the laugh with which some
gray brutes looked at the
protruding part.

5

Spoke to Headman on several
points when he came last
night to see the candle burning
Chuma proving a very
voluble interpreter in Waiyau
10Here the people are Makoa
and have left off the half
moon mark which they
inherited from the Makoa
of the South East - they now
15partake of the Waiyau marks
more {figure} & part Makoa {figure}

The country is covered
with ^ #forest more open
than further East - We are
20now at least 800 feet
above the sea - people
grow maize chiefly &
now eat the winter crop
almost all possess guns
0081
and as this is the [      ]
route plenty of powder -
and fine blue beads
Red ones strung on the hair
5are fashionable - The
fine ones made into rolls
and fitted tightly round
the neck like soldiers stocks
Lip ring universal among
10women - Teeth filed to points
{figure}

0082

24th June 1866 Divine service
at 8-30 - numbers looking
on - Cold southerly winds -
Temp at 6 AM 55° Mule
5very ill = will soon die I fear
Got a fowl from Chirikaloma
The first I have obtained
since we passed Matawataw
We have got turtle doves &
10occasionally a guinea fowl
instead & often dined on
rice or porridge alone =
meet a tree for first time
now having light green bark
15fine brown wood & pods
about a foot long and
leaves very like the Kigelia
Immense quantities of wood
are burned for the purpose
20of manuring the land for
maize - The branches are cut
down and collected in long
heaps while the leaves are
still green and dried by the
25winter drought are burned before
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the rains set in = [            ] [            ]

"Stone boiling" is unknown
but ovens are made in the
ground or in anthills
5for baking the heads of
large game - feet of Elephants
and humps of Rhinocerosses
The production of fire by
drilling between the palms
10of the hands is universal
It is quite common to see the
sticks used for getting fire thus
attached to the clothing or
tied in the bundles of native
15travellers = They wet the
blunt end of the upright stick
with the tongue & dap{b} it in
the sand to make a little
silica adhere before inserting
20it in the horizontal one -
The wood of a fig tree is
much esteemed for the
upright piece -

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[      ] are in the habit of
preserving meat fish
and fruit by drying them
in stages over slow fires
5Preservation by salt seems
unknown -

The Makonde use stages
about 6 feet high to sleep
on - making a fire under
10neath keeps off mosquitoes
and it is also the means
of keeping them off the
damp of the ground -
They are used by day
15as convenient sitting
places for observation

Pottery seems to have
been known to the Africans
from the very remotest
20times for fragments are
met with everywhere
even among the oldest
fossil bones in the country

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The pots are made [ ]y
women and the form
wonderfully well preserved
by the eye alone - A
5foundation is laid and
a piece of wood - bamboo
or bone used to scrape
off or add to this - It is
left a night a piece more
10added next day - when
this is consolidated - another
round goes on and all
carefully scraped &
smoothed outside &
15in then it is left till
it is thoroughly ^ House & then sun
dried = a light fire of dry
cow dung or straw &
grass with twigs is
20made in a hole in the
ground but no machine
is ever used

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A blunt wand {figure} is often
seen ins[ ]{ert}ed                 by both
ends into the ground with
alot of medicine - usually
5bark of trees buried beneath
it - When sickness is in
a village the men go out
wash themselves with
the medicine & water
10creep through beneath the
bow & then bury the
medicine & the evil
influence together - It is
also used to keep off evil
15spirits - beasts & enemies

Chirikaloma says that
the family name of nearly all
the tribes in this region is
Mirazi = some Makoa are
20Ma{ei}lola = Chimposola
Lived kometo south

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25thJune 1866 [            ]
to Namalo's = village was
deserted this morning
no food to be had = 3 hours
5sleep at Ntabila on banks
of Rovuma here from 50
to 80 yards wide & only
ankle deep - Arab slave
dealers escaped out of our
10way as if afraid that we
would catch them = a poor
little girl left in one of the
deserted huts = too lean to
walk and probably without
15relatives.

Chirikaloma told us of a
child born in his tribe
who had an abortive toe
at knee & no leg - some
20said to his mother kill it
but she answered How
can I kill my own son?
and he grew up and had
many sons and daughters
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very fine children but none
deformed like himself
This was told in connection
with an answer to my
5enquiry about Albinos
He says they never come
to anything but die either
in infancy or before
they come to Manhood -
10They do not kill them
or the old and as for
cannibalism & people
with tails they have
always heard that such
15monstrosities were to
met with only among
ourselves - the seagoing
people - who were said
also to have eyes behind
20their heads -

The rains are expected
when the Pleiades are
seen in the East in the
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evening & they have the
same name here as
further south - "Limila"
the "hoeings" -

5

The slave trade is so brisk
along this route that white
cloth is a drug = the slavers
give large prices for
everything - one old man
10lying on his side as we
passed drawled out "slave"
"Kapolo". We cannot get
food & must push on
to Mtarika's as fast as
15we can

If we held away to the W.
we would cross several
rivers flowing into the
Rovuma as the Zandulo
20coming from South - the
Sanjeze Do - Lochingo Do
0090
and then come to Ngombo
on Lake Nyassa - the
then Mphuta on North End
the Nindi now inhabit
5where the Mazitu left
and have some of their
ways - An Arab party
got out of their hands
by paying a whole bale
10of cloth = In these cir-
cumstances it would
not be wise for me
to venture there going
but in returning with
15few goods we may
try

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26th June 1866 = Mule
very ill. In coming along
we were loudly accosted
by a well dress-ed woman
5who had just had a very
heavy slave stick put
on her neck = She called in
such an authoritative tone
to us to witness the flagrant
10injustice of which was the
victim that all the men
stood at once & went back
to her - I was told that
she was a near relative
15of Chirikaloma & she
was going to her husband
when the old man at
whose house she was
now a prisoner caught
20her - took her servant
away and now kept
her in the degraded state
we saw - I went to

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th[ ] [      ] where she was
bound = the withs being still
green ^ & wet - asked the old man who
had been so officious in
5a friendly tone what he
expected from Chirikaloma
for seizing her = "nothing" -
why not let her go on her
way - "Chirikaloma would
10be offended with him"
Several Arab looking
fellows now came about
and I have no doubt but
that the old man meant
15to sell her to them - I then
gave him a cloth and told
him to give it to Chirikalom
if he found fault with
him - tell him I was
20ashamed to see one of his
relatives in a slave stick
and had therefore released
her - she is evidently a
lady among them Her
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many fine beads [      ]
some on Elephants hair
and she has some "spunk"
for as soon as released
5she went into the man's
house & took thence her
basket and calabash
A virago of a wife shut
the door & tried to prevent
10her as well as cut her
beads off but she resisted
like a good one & my
men thrust open the
door and let her go with
15her goods minus her
slave -

Passed a slave woman
shot through the body by
an Arab because she
20could not march =
and met a great concourse
of people going to the
Loendi or Lojendi side
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[      ] [  ]ve past Che-
unde's by mistake &
on to Singao's
whole march 2 ½ hou[  ]

5

27th June 1866 -
passed a man lying dead
of starvation in decent
attitude - Reuben wandered
and came upon fifteen =
10say five slaves starving - we
cut off the stick from
one but none could
speak or say whence
they came - some were
15quite young. We
went one hour & a half
and then crossed the
Tulesi a stream
flowing from south
2020 yards wide & in June
knee deep -

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Another hour & a [      ]half
took us to Chengawallas
place - mule died yesterday -
left saddle at Singaōs Many slaves going East
5and many dying in the
way - whole march 3 hours

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Chenjewala & his people
place the blame of the
10slave trade on the Machemba
who come & plunder their
gardens & kidnap the
people. After a long {di}scussion
one man said if the
15Arabs did not come &
tempt them with fine
cloths then they would not
sell = this was childish =
tried to explain the conjoint
20guilt of those who sold as
well as of those who buy
one being as if he held the
victim while the other committed
the murder

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5

28th found the chief
disinclined to aid us
in any way - but some
of his people were more
reasonable - When we got
10one hour off we met the
"war" going on between Ma-
-chemba & Chenjewala -
We saw but two persons
one came up & spoke
15to us said he had capture
five persons
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The other party [  ]de
across the river and
beckoned us to go
against their enemies
5The two men after talking
with us took some
maize & so did some
of my people believing
that as it was all going
10they who were really
starving might as
well have a share - I
went on with the two
marauders & by the
15footsteps the whole
party probably consisted
of 4 or 5 men with
guns - Gardens &
villages all deserted
20one poor woman
sitting cooking some
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green maize was ordered
by one of the two men to
follow him - I said -
"Let her alone she is
5dying" - he said "Yes of
hunger" and went on
without her - slept
among gardens the
people all gone, my
10men having no other
food take what can be
gleaned of peas - bean
leaves & maize
stalks - poor fare but
15all we have = 2 hours

29th came on two hours
to Machemba's brother
who gave us food
at once - a Nassick
20boy came up sayin
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he had gone a[   ]e and
on returning found that
his bale was stolen. I
cannot impress them
5with an idea of wrong
in lying down in the
path and sleeping -
We hear that there is
more lawlessness in
10front = shooting & stealing
any one who falls out
of the ranks -

Mtimbua & kera islands
about ½ a mile below
15our sleeping place -
Chikomo hills on the North
Thimbi ^ Range beyond it -
Kañgomba lived there
but now all have
20fled = Wanindi are the
Mazitu now
0100
A[   ]akone the lady
we liberated shewed
herself a lady all through
Having a good addressed
5she bought food for
us more successfully
than any of our men
could do = spoke up for
us when any injustice
10was attempted - carried
Chuma's bag & on the
last 2 days when we were
in difficulties for
carriers bore a bag of
15beads on her head - &
lastly when we reached
Machemba's brother
introduced me to him
as the brother of her
20husband - & with ex-
pressions of thankfulne
0101
for what we had [   ]e for
her took her leave = she
was treated all along by
her country women
5with respect & commiser
ation at the indignity
done her - so we have
not lavished our kindness
on an undeserving
10recipient -

One Johanna man
caught stealing maize
had to pay five cubits
of cloth - Bale
15was 240 yards here
worth as many
Rupees - sepoys
stealing maize -
sent to Headman
20& told him I was very
much ashamed &
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hope[ ] [ ]e would not
make much of a row
but let me pay & help
me off to where food
5was to be had in plenty
He replied that he had
liked me from the
first & I was not to
fear as whatever he
10could do on this side
he would willingly
to do it to save me
pain & trouble.

30 June Left our friend
15Chimseia = He warned
us against allowing
the men to scatter
in march & we
found his advice
20good for a sepo
0103
fell behind & I [  ]ppose
when asleep was
disarmed & then sent
up to us as naked
5as a Robin. We
reached Chimsaka's
after a march of 3¼
hours - saw a person
dead but bound to
10a tree - hands bound
other dead bodies
sad sight to see -

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