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take the hint to give me another. He always talks good 

 sense when he has not swilled beer or pombe : all the 

 Arabs are loud in his praises, but they have a bad opinion 

 of the Queen Moari or Ngornbe or Kifuta. The Garaganza 

 people at Katanga killed a near relative of Casembe and 

 herself, and when the event happened, Fungafunga, one of 

 the Garaganza or Banyamwezi being near the spot, fled and 

 came to the Mofwe : he continued his flight as soon as it 

 was dark without saying anything to anyone, until he got 

 north to Kabiure. The Queen and Casembe suspected 

 Mpamari of complicity with the Banyamwezi, and believed 

 that Fungafunga had communicated the news to him before 

 fleeing further. A tumult was made ; Mpamari's eldest 

 son was killed ; and he was plundered of all his copper, 

 ivory, and slaves : the Queen loudly demanded his exe- 

 cution, but Casembe restrained his people as well as he was 

 able and it is for this injury that he now professes to be 

 sorry. 



The Queen only acted according to the principles of her 

 people. " Mpamari killed my son,, kill his son — himself." 

 It is difficult to get at the truth, for Mohamad or Mpamari 

 never tells the whole truth. He went to fight Nsama with 

 Muonga, and was wounded in the foot and routed, and is 

 now glad to get out of Lunda back to Ujiji. (16th May.) 

 Complete twenty sets of lunars. 



11th May. — Mohamad Bogharib told Casembe that he 

 could buy nothing, and therefore was going away, Casembe 

 replied that he had no ivory and he might go : this was 

 sensible; he sent far and near to find some, but failed, 

 and now confesses a truth which most chiefs hide from 

 unwillingness to appear poor before foreigners. 



18th and 19th May. — It is hot here though winter ; but 

 cold by night. Casembe has sent for fish for us. News 

 came that one of Syde bin Habib's men had come to 

 Chikumbi on his way to Zanzibar. 



