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CHAPTEE II. 



Prepares to explore Paver Lualaba. Beauty of the Manyuema country. 

 Irritation at conduct of Arabs. Dugumbe's ravages. Hordes of 

 traders arrive. Severe fever. Elephant trap. Sickness in camp. A 

 good Samaritan. Reaches Mamohela and is prostrated. Beneficial 

 effects of Nyumbo plant. Long illness. An elephant of three tusks. 

 All men desert except Susi, Omnia, and Gardner.- Starts with these 

 to Lualaba. Arab assassinated by outraged Manyuema. Returns 

 baffled to Mamohela. Long and dreadful suffering from ulcerated 

 feet. Questionable cannibalism. Hears of four river sources close 

 together. Resume of discoveries. Contemporary explorers. The 

 soko. Description of its habits. Dr. Livingstone feels himself 

 failing. Intrigues of deserters. 



1st November, 18G9. — Being now well rested, I resolved to 

 go west to Lualaba and buy a canoe for its exploration. 

 Our course was west and south-west, through, a country sur- 

 passingly beautiful, mountainous, and villages perched on 

 the talus of each great mass for the sake of quick drainage. 

 The streets often run east and west, in order that the bright 

 blazing sun may lick up the moisture quickly from off them. 

 The dwelling houses are generally in line, with public meet- 

 ing houses at each end, opposite the middle of the street, 

 the roofs are low, but well thatched with a leaf resembling 

 the banana leaf, but more tough ; it seems from its fruit to 

 be a species of Euphorbia. The leaf-stack has a notch made 

 in it of two or three inches lengthways, and this hooks on 

 to the rafters, which are often of the leaf-stalks of palms, 

 split up so as to be thin ; the water runs quickly off this 

 roof, and the walls, which are of well-beaten clay, are 



