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fine portly black Arab, with a pleasant smile, and pure white 

 beard, and has been more than ten years in these parts, 

 and lived with four Casembes : he has considerable influence 

 here, and also on Tanganyika. 



An Arab trader, Mohamad Bogarib, who arrived seven 

 days before us with an immense number of slaves, presented 

 a meal of vermicelli, oil, and honey, also cassava meal 

 cooked, so as to resemble a sweet meat (I had not tasted 

 honey or sugar since Ave left Lake Nyassa, in September 

 1866) : they had coffee too. 



Neither goats, sheep, nor cattle thrive here, so the 

 people are confined to fowls and fish. Cassava is very 

 extensively cultivated, indeed, so generally is this plant 

 grown, that it is impossible to know which is town and 

 which is country : every hut has a plantation around it, 

 in which is grown cassava, Holcus sorghum, maize, beans, 

 nuts. 



Mohamad gives the same account of the Eiver Luapula 

 and Lake Bemba that Jumbe did, but he adds, that the 

 Chambeze, where we crossed it, is the Luapula before it 

 enters Bemba or Bangweolo : on coming out of that Lake 

 it turns round and comes away to the north, as Luapula, 

 and, without touching the Mofwe, goes into Moero; then, 

 emerging thence at the north-west end it becomes Lualaba, 

 goes into Eua, forms a lake there, and afterwards goes into 

 another lake beyond Tanganyika. 



The Lakelet Mofwe fills during the rains and spreads 

 westward, much beyond its banks. Elephants wandering in 

 its mud flats when covered are annually killed in numbers : 

 if it were connected with the Lake Moero the flood would 

 rim off. 



Many of Casembe's people appear with the ears cropped 

 and hands lopped off: the present chief has been often 

 guilty of this barbarity. One man has just come to us 

 without ears or hands : he tries to excite our pity making a 



