A fascinating parallelism between two quite distinct stories exposes the special vulnerability of younger siblings to being offered up into captivity. According to a Makua boy at Kiungani, his married elder brother, who was a drunkard, stumbled into the home of another woman and proposed marriage to her. The next day, when she informed her kinsmen, they objected and demanded compensation. At first, the elder brother was seized and confined by the woman's family. But as this boy was the youngest in his family, 'at last my family took me, and gave me in payment to his captors' (Madan, 1887, p. 39). Despite his mother's protests, he was taken away and sold, eventually to end up at Kiungani. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a Norwegian missionary in Madagascar first recorded and then published, in 1919, a life story of a man born in Mozambique in around 1853 and named Kalamba Mahihitse Josefa. Kalamba was one of four children: three boys and a girl. Against his parents' admonitions, his eldest brother travelled to a local circumcision celebration being held some distance from their family home, but was captured en route by bandits. Since Kalamba's parents valued their eldest son, as it was he who would see to their proper burial when they died, they decided to exchange Kalamba for his brother. Thus Kalamba became enslaved; he tells us that he was only seven or eight years of age (Boyer-Rossol, 2015, pp. 864-865).