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6th July. — Divided our salt that each may buy pro- 

 visions for himself: it is here of more value than 

 beads. Chikumbi sent fine flour, a load for two stout men 

 carried in a large basket slung to a pole, and a fine 

 fat sheep, carried too because it was too fat to walk the 

 distance from his stockade. 



7 th, 8th, and 9th July.- — After delaying several days 

 to send our guide, Chikumbi said that he feared the 

 country people would say that the Ingleza brought the 

 Mazitu to them, and so blame will be given to him. I set 

 this down as " words of pombe," beery babble ; but after 

 returning from Bangweolo, I saw that he must have been 

 preparing to attack a stockade of Banyamwezi in our 

 path, and had he given us a guide, that man would 

 have been in danger in coming back : he therefore 

 preferred the safety of his man to keeping his promise 

 to me. I got a Banyamwezi guide, and left on the 

 10th July, going over gently rising sandstone hills, 

 covered with forest and seeing many deserted villages, 

 the effects of the Mazitu foray : we saw also the Mazitu 

 sleeping-places and paths. They neglect the common paths 

 of the country as going from one village to another, and 

 take straight courses in the direction they wish to go, 

 treading down the grass so as to make a well-marked route. 

 The Banyamwezi expelled them, cutting off so many of 

 them with their guns and arrows that the marauders re- 

 tired. The effect of this success on the minds of the 

 Imboshwa, or Imbozhwas, as Chikumbi's people are called, 

 was not gratitude, but envy at the new power sprung up 

 among them of those who came originally as traders in 

 copper. 



Kombokombo's stockade, the village to which we went 

 this day, was the first object of assault, and when we re- 

 turned, he told us that Chikumbi had assaulted him on 

 three sides, but was repulsed. The Banyamwezi were, 



