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asking a single question, treating us with a little palm wine, 

 and sending me a present of six fowls without asking for any 

 thing in return. In one of the courts of his tenement we 

 had the disagreeable sight of two men slaves prepared for 

 sale, one having a long fork stick fastened to his neck, and 

 the other with European-made irons on his legs ; on enquiry 

 I found that there were 14 slaves in the banza for sale, who 

 were going to Embomma. 



The night was cool, the thermometer at one o'clock being 

 at 60^ ; in the early part the stars shone brightly, but to- 

 wards morning it became very cloudy ; and at daylight we 

 might easily have fancied ourselves amidst the blue misty 

 hills of Morven. 



August 15th. In the morning we were surrounded by all 

 the women of the banza with fowls and eggs to exchange 

 lor beads. In the eggs we were however taken in, more 

 than half we purchased having been taken from under the 

 hens half hatched. Although the largest banza we have 

 seen, we could not procure either a sheep, goat, or pig 

 for the people. 



Having engaged a guide to lead us above the falls (the 

 hills close to the river being absolutely impassable by any 

 thing but goats), we quitted the banza at seven o'clock, and 

 after four hours most fatiguing march we again got sight of 



