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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 enzaddi," 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 jMarket 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 atiect the people. 



There are several varieties of the palm trees here, three 

 of which aftbrd palm wine ; the first, the sweet kind, is given 

 by that named Moba, and the second by the Mosombie ; 



