Travels and Researches Among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern & Central Africa: From the Journals of the Late J. Frederic Elton |
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African anchor Arab arrived Bagamoyo bank Banyans bathed Bilali boats boma breakfast brought buffalo camp canoe Captain caravan carried carriers cattle CHAP chief coast Consul Elton copal Cotterill creek crossed dhow district East elephant fever fire forest grass halted harbour heavy herd hills hippo hippopotami Hoste hour Ilala Indian island journey Kilwa Kirk kraal lake land Lurio Machinga Madagascar Majunga Makua Mazaro Merere Merere's miles morning Mosembé mountain Mozambique Mwendazi Natal natives night Nyanja Nyassa pallah party passed Portuguese Quaqua rain range reached returned Rhodes river road round Ruaha Rufiji sail Senhor sent Seyyid Shiré shore shot Sir Bartle Frere slave-trade slaves spoor stream Suleiman Sultan Swahili Thetis town trade trees Tugulu Usango Usekhe Uwanje valley village walk Wasango waterbuck whilst wind wood Xanga yards Zambezi Zanzibar zebra
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Page 83 - ... wrinkled parchment-like skin. One wretched woman had been flung against a tree for slipping her rope, and came screaming up to us for protection, with one eye half out and the side of her face and bosom streaming with blood.
Page 92 - ... of some 1,100 filed past within sight of my bed, in long chain gangs, heavily laden with provisions for the road. The leader of the latter, one Mamji Hadji, conceived it his duty to call on me, accompanied by about eight of his men armed with muskets. He was very communicative, said...
Page 161 - II est très expressément défendu de vendre aucuns habitants originaires du pays comme esclaves, ni d'en faire trafic sous peine de la vie. Et il est enjoint à tous les Français qui les loueront ou retiendront à leur service de les traiter humainement sans les molester ni les outrager, à peine de punitions corporelles, s'il y échet.
Page 38 - Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Page 198 - The fear of slave-dealers' raids — their tracks are marked by many a burned and desolated settlement — has engendered a suspicious uneasiness among the villagers for so many years, that it has now become an innate feature of the Makua character, is marked upon their faces, and colours every action of their lives at the present day. No communication with a stranger or with an adjoining tribe is allowed without express permission from a " baraza
Page 82 - All were in a wretched condition. One gang of lads and women chained together with iron neck-rings, was in a horrible state, their lower extremities coated with dry mud and torn with thorns, their bodies mere frameworks, and their skeleton limbs slightly stretched over with parchmentlike skin. One wretched woman had been flung against a tree for slipping her rope, and came screaming to us for protection, with one eye half out, and her face and bosom streaming with blood.
Page 83 - We washed her wounds, and that was the only piece of interference on our part with the cravan, although the temptation was a strong one to cast all adrift, and give them, at any rate, a chance of starving to death peaceably in the woods. We afterwards learned at Kisiju that this caravan was 400 strong, and had come from the Nyassa direct to Kilwa, and there accepted an offer of 35 dollars a head all round for the slaves, made by an agent from Pemba, the money to be paid on delivery at either Saadani,...
Page 59 - Know that we have prohibited the transport of slaves by sea in all our harbours and have closed the markets for the sale of slaves through all our dominions. Whosoever, therefore, shall ship a slave after this date will render himself liable to punishment.
Page 70 - The two great Mohammedan feasts are held on the first of Shaowal, when every one gives presents, and on the tenth of Th'il hajjah, when every one is supposed to slaughter some animal and feast the poor. The other year in use among the Swahili is the Nautical and Agricultural year ; it is roughly a solar year, having 365 days. It is reckoned to begin from the Situ о iiiwalta (answering to the Persian Nairuz), which now occurs towards the end of August The last day of the old year is called Kigunzi,...
Page 139 - Johanna, either during the last week in October or the first week in November last year.