Identifier: moderntravelreco00davi (find matches)
Title: Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Davidson, Norman James. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company London, Seeley, Service & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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l ? Spear them at once, was the fiendish reply. Forif we did not others would pretend they were ill in orderto avoid carrying their loads. No ! we never leavethem alive on the road. They all know our custom. I see women carrying not only a child on their backs,but, in addition, a tusk of ivory or other burden ontheir heads. What do you do in their case when theybecome too weak to carry child and ivory ? Whocarries the ivory ? She does ! We cannot leave valuable ivory on theroad. We spear the child and make her burden lighter.Ivory first, child afterwards ! Swann could have struck the demon dead at his feet. He was helpless, but it is pleasant to reflect that hewas then looking on the last slave caravan permitted toleave the mainland, for a strong letter of protest toEngland caused pressure to be brought to bear on theSultan of Zanzibar. The party broke camp and had a heart-breakingjourney through the plains of Ugogo, for thorny bushesand rugged country rendered the march not one to be
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3 J^ 3 3 «, ^ s c s s n !« bfl - rt o ^ .J3 o Z. > o 3 D. i> c 0,22 THE HAUNTS OF SLAVERY 121 forgotten. This locality was inhabited by a powerfuland truculent race of ruffians, the Wagogo, who mademost impudent and extortionate demands as paymentfor the water asked for. They reached the much-dreaded Mgunda-Mkali wilderness, a plateau of abouteight hundred feet high, a most difficult climb rendereddoubly distressing by the absence of water. In thisneighbourhood they discovered the skeletons of theirfour mail-men who had been murdered by robbers, withthe fragments of letters strewn in all directions, but asthere were seven skulls it proved that they had notsuccumbed without making a stiff fight. It had long been Swanns ambition to shoot a bullbuffalo, and when marching through the country of theUnyamwezi he came across the spoor of one on the edgeof a swamp. He was armed with only

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