Native fights remind one of the days of Homer. A good tongue is as essential as a good spear. So long as a combatant has courage to demand his rights, the fact that the enemy has “eaten” a number of his followers is regarded as mere by-play. CHAPTER XIV. A SLAVE GOVERNMENT. 102. THE MAGOLOLO. As an illustration of a Slave Government, we shall here insert a few remarks on the Magololo, who are half-a-dozen men that came with Dr. Livingstone a journey of “many moons” from the south of the Zambeze—from the land, which on maps of Africa is marked Makololo. Hitherto we have spoken of chiefs and headmen ruling among free people. The native word for “free” means “belonging to the tribe,” and implies that persons falling into the power of another tribe lose their rights. The Anyasa under the Magololo are in the hands of aliens, by whom they are consequently treated as if they were captives. When not promptly obeyed, a Magololo cries, “All the Anyasa are my slaves”; hence although he has many good points about him, his government is severe, and he is more suspicious than the Yao chiefs who rule their own kinsmen. “The Magololo,” according to Mr. Rowley (277), “sprung all at once from a condition little removed from bondage to that of lords of the creation. When left by Dr. Livingstone, they had little but their guns and ammunition. With guns they knew themselves to be formidable. They hunted the slavers far and near, released captives and took the plunder. The women thus released they took for wives, the men and boys they kept for slaves. They had no sheep, goats, nor corn, but the Anyasa had, and as in their own country, the possession of cattle by a neighbour is a good _casus belli_, they were prepared to make war on the Anyasa for their flocks and corn, if the latter did not yield them without resistance. The Anyasa yielded, and thus arose the bleating of sheep and goats, the cackling of fowls and the well-stocked houses of corn in the Magololo habitations.” “It was a great mistake on the part of Dr. Livingstone to leave the Makololo at Chibisa’s unprovided with everything but arms. They were identified with the English—they adopted our name in their raids.” The remark that these men are identified with the English holds true to this day. Chiputula, one of the Magololo, was viewed by Matekenya as a “child” or “subject” of the English, and Matekenya often put the question, “What will the English do if I kill Chiputula?” The latter used to be constantly entreating us to send messages to Matekenya: and Dr. Macklin once brought up a “son” of Matekenya to conclude a peace with Chiputula. “Mangokwe talked of driving them out of the country, but they would have driven like sheep five times the number of Anyasa that Mangokwe could have brought against them, and so he appeared to think ...” (2nd edition, p. 278). “They had plundered the country on all sides, and so great was the terror of them that the Anyasa were afraid to come to us with food.