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slaughtered in a day, was not confirmed by any one else, though numbers
may have been killed on some particular occasion during the time of his
visit, for we find throughout all the country north of 20 Deg., which
I consider to be real negro, the custom of slaughtering victims to
accompany the departed soul of a chief, and human sacrifices are
occasionally offered, and certain parts of the bodies are used as
charms. It is on account of the existence of such rites, with the
similarity of the language, and the fact that the names of rivers are
repeated again and again from north to south through all that region,
that I consider them to have been originally one family. The last
expedition to Cazembe was somewhat of the same nature as the others, and
failed in establishing a commerce, because the people of Cazembe, who
had come to Tete to invite the Portuguese to visit them, had not been
allowed to trade with whom they might. As it had not been free-trade
there, Cazembe did not see why it should be free-trade at his town; he
accordingly would not allow his people to furnish the party with
food except at his price; and the expedition, being half starved in
consequence, came away voting unanimously that Cazembe was a great bore.

When we left the Loangwa we thought we had got rid of the hills; but
there are some behind Mazanzwe, though five or six miles off from the
river. Tsetse and the hills had destroyed two riding oxen, and when the
little one that I now rode knocked up, I was forced to march on foot.
The bush being very dense and high, we were going along among the trees,
when three buffaloes, which we had unconsciously passed above the wind,
thought that they were surrounded by men, and dashed through our line.
My ox set off at a gallop, and when I could manage to glance back, I saw
one of the men up in the air about five feet above a buffalo, which was
tearing along with a stream of blood running down his flank. When I got
back to the poor fellow, I found that he had lighted on his face, and,
though he had been carried on the horns of the buffalo about twenty
yards before getting the final toss, the skin was not pierced nor was a
bone broken. When the beasts appeared, he had thrown down his load and
stabbed one in the side. It turned suddenly upon him, and, before he
could use a tree for defense, carried him off. We shampooed him well,
and then went on, and in about a week he was able to engage in the hunt
again.