24 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOUKNALS. [Chap. I. 



with it, and became afraid that worse would follow, else- 

 where it would have been given up at once : Pyana-mosinde 

 came out and talked very sensibly. 



13th September. — Along towards the Moloni or Mononi ; 

 cross seven rills. The people seized three slaves who 

 lagged behind, but hearing a gun fired at guinea-fowls let 

 them go. Koute N. 



14$. September. — Up and down hills perpetually. We 

 went down into some deep dells, filled with gigantic trees, 

 and I measured one twenty feet in circumference, and sixty 

 or seventy feet high to the first branches; others seemed 

 fit to be ship's spars. Large lichens covered many and 

 numerous new plants appeared on the ground. 



lhth September. — Got clear of the mountains after H hour, 

 and then the vast valley of Mamba opened out before 

 us ; very beautiful, and much of it cleared of trees. Met 

 Dugumbe carrying 18,000 lbs. of ivory, purchased in 

 this new field very cheaply, because no traders had ever 

 gone into the country beyond Bambarre, or Moenekuss's 

 district before. We were now in the large bend of the 

 Lualaba, which is here much larger than at Mpweto's, near 

 Moero Lake. River Kesingwe. 



IQth September. — To Kasangangazi's. We now came to 

 the first palm-oil trees (Elais Guineensis) in our way since 

 we left Tanganyika. They had evidently been planted at 

 villages. Light-grey parrots, with red tails, also became 

 common, whose name, Kuss or Koos, gives the chief his name, 

 Moenekuss (" Lord of the Parrot ") ; but the Manyuema pro- 

 nunciation is Monanjoose. Much reedy grass, fully half an 

 inch in diameter in the stalk on our route, and over the 

 top of the range Moloni, which we ascended: the valleys 

 are impassable. 



11th September. — Remain to buy food at Kasanga's, and 

 rest the carriers. The country is full of palm-oil palms, and 

 very beautiful. Our people are all afraid to go out of sight 



