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and visit hini once more, for only one day, but it is im- 

 possible, for we expect to move directly. I sent the infor- 

 mation to Hamees, who replied that they had got a clue to 

 the man who was wiling away their slaves from them. My 

 people saw others of the low squad which always accom- 

 panies the better-informed Arabs bullying the people of 

 another village, and taking fowls and food without payment. 

 Slavery makes a bad neighbourhood ! 



Hamees is on friendly terms with a tribe of Mazitu who 

 say that they have given up killing people. They lifted a 

 great many cattle, but have very few now ; some of them 

 came with him to show the way to Kasonso's. 



Slaves are sold here in the same open way that the 

 business is carried on in Zanzibar slave-market. A man 

 goes about calling out the price he wants for the slave, who 

 walks behind him ; if a woman, she is taken into a hut to 

 be examined in a state of nudity. 



Some of the Arabs believe that meteoric stones are 

 thrown at Satan for his wickedness. They believe that 

 cannon were taken up Kilimanjaro by the first Arabs who 

 came into the country, and there they lie. They deny 

 that Van der Decken did more than go round a portion 

 of the base of the mountain ; he could not get on the 

 mass of the mountain: all his donkeys and some of his 

 men died by the cold. Hamees seems to be Cooley's great 

 geographical oracle ! 



The information one can cull from the Arabs respecting 

 the country on the north-west is very indefinite. They 

 magnify the difficulties in the way by tales of the cannibal 

 tribes, where anyone dying is bought and no one ever 

 buried, but this does not agree with the fact, which also is 

 asserted, that the cannibals have plenty of sheep and goats. 

 The Kua is about ten days west of Tanganyika, and five 

 days beyond it a lake or river ten miles broad is reached ; 

 it is said to be called Logarawa. All the water flows 



