1809.] UNLUCKY DAYS. 31 



24:th-2oth October. — Making copper rings, as these are 

 highly prized by Manyuema. Mohamad's Tembe fell. It 

 had been begun on an unlucky day, the 26th of the moon ; 

 and on another occasion on the same day, he had fifty slaves 

 swept away by a sudden flood of a dry river in the Obena 

 coimtry: they are great observers of lucky and unlucky 

 days. 



