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and Casembe had sent messengers to hear the truth. 

 Thanks to the Most High for His kindness and influence. 



4th May. — We leave the Mandapala. Cropped-ears, whose 

 name I never heard, collapsed at once on hearing the 

 message of Casembe : before that I never heard such a 

 babbler, to every one passing, man or woman, he repeated 

 the same insinuations about the English, and "Mpaniari," 

 and the Banyamwezi, — conspiracy — guilt — return a second 

 time, — till, like a meddling lawyer, he thought that he had 

 really got an important case in hand ! 



The River Chungu we found to be from fifteen to eighteen 

 yards broad and breast deep, with at least one hundred 

 yards of flood, before we reached the main stream, the Man- 

 dapala. The Chungu and the Lundi join in the country 

 called Kimbafuma, about twelve miles from our crossing- 

 place of Mandapala, and about west of it. The Lundi was 

 now breast deep too, and twelve yards broad. 



On reaching Casembe's, on the Mofwe, we found Mohamad 

 Bogharib digging and fencing up a well to prevent his slaves 

 being taken away by the crocodiles, as three had been eaten 

 already. A dog bit the leg of one of my goats so badly 

 that I was obliged to kill it : they are nasty curs here, 

 without courage, and yet they sometimes bite people badly. 

 I met some old friends, and Mohamad Bogharib cooked a 

 supper, and from this time forward never omitted sharing 

 his victuals with me. 



6th May. — Manoel Caetano Pereira visited Casembe in 

 1796, or seventy-two years ago: his native name was 

 Moendo-mondo, or the world's leg — " world-wide traveller ! " 

 He came to Mandapala, for there the Casembe of the time 

 resided, and he had a priest or " Kasise " with him, and 

 many people with guns. Perembe, the oldest man now in 

 Lunda, had children even then : if Perembe were thirty 

 years of age at that period he would now be 102 years 

 old, and he seems quite that, for when Dr. Lacerda came 



