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soil is very rich. At two villages the people did not want us, 

 so we went on and encamped near a third, Kabwakwa, where a 

 son of Mohamad bin Saleh, with a number of Wanyamwesi, lives. 

 The -chief of this part is Muabo, but we did not see him : the 

 people brought plenty of food for us to buy. The youth's 

 father is at Casembe's. The country-people were very much 

 given to falsehood — every place inquired for was near — ivory 

 abundant — provisions of all sorts cheap and plenty. Our head 

 men trusted to these statements of this young man rather, and 

 he led them to desist going farther. Rua country was a month 

 distant, he said, and but little ivory there. It is but three days 

 of (we saw it after three days). ' No ivory at Casembe's or 

 here in Buire, or Kabuire.' He was right as to Casembe. Let- 

 ters, however, came from Hamees, with news of a depressing 

 nature. Chitimba is dead, and so is Mambwe." 



The news of Chitimba's death, and that his people were 

 fighting for the chieftainship, and other matters in an unsettled 

 state there, was anything but pleasant to the Arabs ; the princi- 

 pal results of their trading were stored there ; the effect of the 

 news was to decide Tipo Tipo to return and join Hamees. He 

 decided to remain in Buire only ten or twenty days, send out 

 people to buy what ivory they could, and retire. 



Dr. Livingstone parted with Tipo Tipo on the 7th November, 

 in company with a party of his men who w T ere to visit Casembe 

 for ivory. They passed along a lovely valley formed by the 

 Kakoma range and another in the distance to the northwest. 

 This valley was thickly studded over with villages, the common 

 distance from one to another not being more than one hundred 

 or two hundred yards. All of these villages were surrounded, 

 like those of Londa or Lunda, by shade trees. 



On the 8th they came to Lake Moero, nestling quietly between 

 two ranges of mountains, and slept in a fisherman's hut. 



