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A very large Arab slave-party was close by our encampment, and I wished to speak to them; but as soon as they knew of our being near they set off in a pathless course across country, and were six days in the wilderness. 1st August, 1866. We saw the encampment of another Arab party.
We found an Arab slave-party here, and went to look at the slaves; seeing this; Mponda was alarmed lest we should proceed to violence in his town, but I said to him that we went to look only. The majority were boys of about eight or ten years of age; others were grown men and women.
The slave-party consisted of five or six half-caste coast Arabs, who said that they came from Zanzibar; but the crowd made such a noise that we could not hear ourselves speak.
It is probable that the people of Lake Tanganyika and Nyassa, and those on the Rivers Shiré and Zambesi, are all of one stock, for the dialects vary very little. I took observations on this point. An Arab slave-party, hearing of us, decamped. 19th September, 1866. When we had proceeded a mile this morning we came to 300 or 400 people making salt on a plain impregnated with it.
Far down on the right bank of the Zambesi lies the dust of her whose death changed all my future prospects; and now, instead of a check being given to the slave-trade by lawful commerce on the Lake, slave-dhows prosper! An Arab slave-party fled on hearing of us yesterday.
Our exploration of the Lake extended from the 2nd September to the 27th October, 1861; and, having expended or lost most of the goods we had brought, it was necessary to go back to the ship. When near the southern end, on our return, we were told that a very large slave-party had just crossed to the eastern side.
But it isn't like you, letting those poor devils off, eh?" Thus Holmes, as the two were leisurely pursuing their way, somewhat on the rear flank of the slave-party. "I don't know. You see they let me off, and I didn't want to be outdone in civility even by a lot of scurvy dogs who eat each other. There was no feeling about the matter."
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