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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue I, 14 November 1862, Page 3

Dr. LtvrirGSTONß— His First Hostile EtfCouiTTEB in Af eica..— The Key. William Monk, of Cambridge, has received a long and interesting communication from Dr. Livingstone. The great traveller draws a gloomy picture of the state of some of the African tribes in tbe neighbourhood of the Shire River. He says : " A tribe called Ajawa had been employed lo attack the Manganja villages, kill the men, and sell the women and children to the Portugese for a mere trifle in calico. You cannot well conceive the state of disunion among the Manjanja; the distraction of village after village produced no effort against tlie common for. A -message *as only sent- down to Chibisa. as hois believed "td -iossferfs' rk medicine capable of ensuring victory.- The paramount 7 chief, instead of aiding his subjects, kindly helped the slave hunters over the Shire. ;We.foand that the whole nation were fleeing, and hoping to stop this and the effusion of^ blood, Went to hold a parley with the Ajawa. .Unfortunatly, we came to them when in the act of burning three villages. The Bishop (Mackenzie) offered up a fervent prayer, and mingled with that prayer we could distinctly hear the wail for the dead and the scream for victory. As we advneed to their villages, our assurances that we came peaeeahly were nulliSed by some Manganja followers calling out " our Chibisa hns come ;" and very unfortunately, Ih rd it distinctly, it did not strike the mind till afterwards that we thereby deprived of the protection of our English name. They attacked us on all sides with poisoned arrows andfour muskets,: and I feel very sure that .the . latter were bandied by Portugese slaves. They certainly had the dress common among slaves at Tette, and there was. a square house, such as slaves often 'build, near the Ajawa villages. We retired slowly from the village, but this only made them bolder; they came within 50 yards of us, and it was only by recourse to our firearms that we avoided all becoming food for the vultures. I am sorry that it was necessary, for it was the first hostile encounter 1 bave had in Africa. Had I anticipated such an attack I should have used fair words and (presents first. Wo are, however, in the slave 1 market. We were twice robbed in the sphere of an Arab dhow and slaving operations, about halfway up Lake Myassa— the first loss by robbers I have sustained on the continent. Slavery is the parent ol every other, vice. ' Life is of no value in the traders eye. We had ammunition with us barely sufficient to drive them ofi, their attack was so unexpected.—" Liverpool Mercury." The Wife for our Taste.— We see that Mr. John Saunders has been publishing a new book, under the title of "Able Drake's Wife." Able is to be enyicd, for it requires no great reasoning, or season ing either, to tollmihat a J}zoJce]*,Wm*W&A\>fh A^Dmer^^^tPl^r^V^fJ ii iy AIA 1 "■'■>'■■