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palm trees, of about 7lbs. each, one of which fetches 
about two fathoms of blue baft. The other objects of 
petty traffic are palm oil and palm nuts, from which 
the oil is extracted. Indian corn, pepper (chiefly bird 
pepper), and mat sails for canoes. ‘The small money in 
use is little mats of the leaf of the bamboo, about 18 in- 
ches square, 20 of which will purchase a fowl. ‘The name 
of Zaire is entirely unknown to the people of Embomma, 
who call the river “ Moienzi énzaddi,” the great river, or 
literally the river that absorbs all the lesser ones ; this title 
must however be derived from its receiving tributary 
streams higher up, as we could not understand that there 
is a stream of any consideration thus far; and the only 
springs we observed were two very insignificant ones issu- 
ing from a rock near the banza; there is also said to be 
good rock water at the Market point, and at Tall Trees ; 
and while at anchor at Sherwood’s creek, the natives 
brought us a cask of excellent water from a creek near 
Kelly’s point. The river water is at this season but little 
muddy, and after being boiled and allowed to deposit its 
sediment, is not found to affect the people. 
There are several varieties of the palm trees here, three 
of which afford palm wine ; the first, the sweet kind, is given 
by that named Moba, and the second by the Mosombie 
