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walk who have none, exactly as our fathers imitated the 

 big cravat of George IV., who thereby hid defects in his 

 neck : thousands carried their cravats over the chin who 

 had no defects to hide. Moenempanda carried his back 

 stiffly, and no wonder, he had about ten yards of a train 

 carried behind it. About 600 people were present. They 

 kept rank, but not step ; were well armed ; marimbas and 

 square drums formed the bands, and one musician added 

 his voice : " I have been to Syde " (the Sultan) ; " I have 

 been to Meereput " (King of Portugal) ; " I have been to 

 the sea." At a private reception, where he was divested 

 of his train, and had only one umbrella instead of three, 

 I gave him a cloth. The Arabs thought highly of him ; 

 but his graciousness had been expended on them in getting 

 into debt ; he now showed no inclination to get out of it, 

 but offered about a twentieth part of the value of the goods 

 in liquidation. He sent me two pots of beer, which I care 

 not to drink except when very thirsty on a march, and 

 promised a man to guide me to Chikumbi, and then re- 

 fused. Casembe rose in the esteem of all as Moenempanda 

 sank, and his people were made to understand how shabbily 

 he had behaved. 



The Lulaputa is said to flow into the Luena, and that into 

 the Luongo : there must be two Luenas. 



2'2nd June. — March across a grassy plain southerly to 

 the Luongo, a deep river embowered in a dense forest of 

 trees, all covered with lichens — some flat, others long and 

 thready, like old men's beards, and waving in the wind, just 

 as they do on the mangrove-swamp trees on the coast. The 

 Luongo here is fifty yards broad and three fathoms deep ; 

 near its junction with the Luapula it is 100 yards ; it rises 

 here to eight fathoms' depth. A bridge of forty yards 

 led us over to an island, and a branch of the river was ten 

 yards beyond: the bridge had been broken, some thought 

 on purpose, but it was soon mended with trees eighteen to 



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