s side. This
opinion may apply to slaves, but decidedly does not in our experience
apply to freemen. We paid his men for helping us, and believe that even
they, being paid, stole nothing from us. Our friend farms pretty
extensively the large island called Sangwisa,--lent him for nothing by
Senhor Ferrao,--and raises large quantities of mapira and beans, and also
beautiful white rice, grown from seed brought a few years ago from South
Carolina. He furnished us with some, which was very acceptable; for
though not in absolute want, we were living on beans, salt pork, and
fowls, all the biscuit and flour on board having been expended.

We fully expected that the owners of the captives we had liberated would
show their displeasure, at least by their tongues; but they seemed
ashamed; only one ventured a remark, and he, in the course of common
conversation, said, with a smile, "You took the Governor's slaves, didn't
you?" "Yes, we did free several gangs that we met in the Manganja
country." The Portuguese of Tette, from the Governor downwards, were
extensively engaged in slaving. The trade is partly internal and partly
external: they send some of the captives, and those bought, into the
interior, up the Zambesi: some of these we actually met on their way up
the river. The young women were sold there for ivory: an
ordinary-looking one brought two arrobas, sixty-four pounds weight, and
an extra beauty brought twice that amount. The men and boys were kept as
carriers, to take the ivory down from the interior to Tette, or were
retained on farms on the Zambesi, ready for export if a slaver should
call: of this last mode of slaving we were witnesses also. The slaves
were sent down the river chained, and in large canoes. This went on
openly at Tette, and more especially so while the French "Free
Emigration" system was in full operation. This double mode of disposing
of the captives pays better than the single system of sending them down
to the coast for exportation. One merchant at Tette, with whom we were
well acquainted, sent into the interior three hundred Manganja women to
be sold for ivory, and another sent a hundred and fifty.

CHAPTER XI.

Arrival of H.M.S. "Gorgon"--Dr. Livingstone's new steamer and Mrs.
Livingstone--Death of Mrs. Livingstone--Voyage to Johanna and the
Rovuma--An attack upon the "Pioneer's" boats.

We anchored on the Great Luabo mouth of the Zambesi, because wood was
much more easily ob