2 P.M.—­An old man, called Kabobo, came for his old wife; I asked her if this were her husband, she went to him, and put her arm lovingly around him, and said “Yes.”  I gave her five strings of beads to buy food, all her stores being destroyed with her house; she bowed down, and put her forehead to the ground as thanks, and old Kabobo did the same:  the tears stood in her eyes as she went off.  Tagamoio caught 17 women, and other Arabs of his party, 27; dead by gunshot, 25.  The heads of two headmen were brought over to be redeemed by their friends with slaves.

3 P.M.—­Many of the headmen who have been burned out by the foray came over to me, and begged me to come back with them, and appoint new localities for them to settle in again, but I told them that I was so ashamed of the company in which I found myself, that I could scarcely look the Manyuema in the face.  They had believed that I wished to kill them—­what did they think now?  I could not remain among bloody companions, and would flee away, I said, but they begged me hard not to leave until they were again settled.

The open murder perpetrated on hundreds of unsuspecting women fills me with unspeakable horror:  I cannot think of going anywhere with the Tagamoio crew; I must either go down or up Lualaba, whichever the Banian slaves choose.

4 P.M.—­Dugumbe saw that by killing the market people he had committed a great error, and speedily got the chiefs who had come over to me to meet him at his house, and forthwith mix blood:  they were in bad case.  I could not remain to see to their protection, and Dugumbe, being the best of the whole horde, I advised them to make friends, and then appeal to him as able to restrain to some extent his infamous underlings.  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.  I see nothing for it but to go back to Ujiji for other men, though it will throw me out of the chance of discovering the fourth great Lake in the Lualaba line of drainage, and other things of great value.

At last I said that I would start for Ujiji, in three days, on foot.  I wished to speak to Tagamoio about the captive relations of the chiefs, but he always ran away when he saw me coming.