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| Keywords: Gang of Captives at Mbame’s.jpg en Gang of Captives Met at Mbame ™s on Their Way to Tette Next forenoon we halted at the village of our old friend Mbame to obtain new carriers After resting a little Mbame told us that a slave party on its way to Tette would presently pass through his village We resolved to run all risks and put a stop if possible to the slave-trade which had now followed on the footsteps of our discoveries A few minutes after Mbame had spoken to us the slave party a long line of manacled men women and children came wending their way round the hill and into the valley on the side of which the village stood The black drivers armed with muskets and bedecked with various articles of finery marched jauntily in the front middle and rear of the line; some of them blowing exultant notes out of long tin horns They seemed to feel that they were doing a very noble thing and might proudly march with an air of triumph But the instant the fellows caught a glimpse of the English they darted off like mad into the forest The captives knelt down and in their way of expressing thanks clapped their hands with great energy They were thus left entirely on our hands and knives were soon busy cutting the women and children loose It was more difficult to cut the men adrift as each had his neck in the fork of a stout stick six or seven feet long and kept in by an iron rod which was riveted at both ends across the throat With a saw luckily in the Bishop ™s baggage one by one the men were sawn out into freedom pp 355-57 1865 http //libweb5 princeton edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/africa/livingstone/livingstone-images html David Livingstone Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864 London John Murray 1865 David Livingstone other versions PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Slave trade in art | ||||
