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bend of the rivulet Kifurwa, which enters Moero near to 

 the mouth of the Kalungosi. 



26th April. — Here we spent Sunday in our former wood- 

 cutters' huts. Yesterday we were met by a party of the 

 same occupation, laden with bark-cloth, which they had just 

 been stripping off the trees. Their leader would not come 

 along the path because I was sitting near it : I invited him 

 to do so, but it would have been disrespectful to let his 

 shadow fall on any part of my person, so he went a little 

 out of the way : this politeness is common. 



21th April. — But a short march to Fungafunga's village : 

 we could have gone on to the Muatize, but no village 

 exists there, and here we could buy food. Fungafunga's 

 wife gave a handsome supper to the stranger : on after- 

 wards acknowledging it to her husband he said, "That is 

 your village ; always go that way and eat my provisions." 

 He is a Monyamwezi trading in the country for copper, hoes, 

 and slaves. Parrots are here in numbers stealing Holcus 

 sorghum in spite of the shouts of the women. 



We cross Muatize by a bridge of one large tree, getting 

 a good view of Moero from a hill near Kabukwa, and sleep 

 at Chirongo River. 



2§th April. — At the Mandapala River. Some men here 

 from the Chungu, one of whom claimed to be a relative of 

 Casembe, made a great outcry against our coming a second 

 time to Casembe without waiting at the Kalungosi for per- 

 mission. One of them, with his ears cropped short off, asked 

 me when I was departing north if I should come again. 

 I replied, " Yes, I think I shall." They excited them- 

 selves by calling over the same thing again and again. 

 " The English come the second time ! " " The second time 

 — the second time — the country spoiled ! Why not wait at 

 the Kalungosi ? Let him return thither." " Come from 

 Mpamari too, and from the Bagaraganza or Banyamwezi ! ! " 

 -"The second time— the second time!" Then all the ad- 



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