What sort of people are you?"

Two women had been shot the previous day for attempting to untie the
thongs, and another had her infant's brains knocked out because she
could not at the same time carry her load and it. The rest were told
that this was done to prevent them from attempting to escape. The
bishop was not present, having gone to bathe just before; but when he
returned, he approved of what had been done.

Eighty-four persons, chiefly women and children, were thus liberated;
and being told that they might go where they liked, they decided on
remaining with the English. The men willingly carried the bishop's
goods.

Eight others were freed in a hamlet on the road; but another party, with
nearly a hundred slaves, though followed by Dr Kirk and four Makololo,
escaped. Six more captives were soon afterwards liberated, and two
slave-dealers were detained for the night, but being carelessly watched
by two of the bishop's black men, who had volunteered to stand guard
over them, they escaped. The next day fifty more slaves were freed at
another village and comfortably clothed.

At Chigunda a Manjanga chief had invited the bishop to settle in his
country near Magomero, adding that there was room enough for both. This
spontaneous invitation seemed to decide the bishop on the subject.

Marching forward, on the 22nd news was received that the Ajawa were
near, burning villages; and at once the doctor and his companions
advanced to seek an interview with these scourges of the country. On
their way they met crowds of Manjangas flying, having left all their
property and food behind them. Numerous fields of Indian corn were
passed, but there was no one to reap them. All the villages were
deserted. One, where on the previous visit a number of men had been
seen peacefully weaving cloth, was burned, and the stores of grain
scattered over the plain and along the paths. The smoke of burning
villages was seen in front, and triumphant shouts, mingled with the wail
of the Manjanga women lamenting over the slain, reached their ears. The
bishop knelt and engaged in prayer, and on rising, a long line of Ajawa
warriors with their captives was seen. In a short time the travellers
were surrounded, the savages shooting their poisoned arrows and dancing
hideously. Some had muskets, but, on shots being fired at them, they
ran off. The main body in the mean time decamped with the captives, two
only of whom escaped and joined