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abound, and the Manyuema bring large supplies of food 

 'every day ; forty large baskets of maize for a goat ; fowls 

 and bananas and nyumbo very cheap. 



25th March. — Iron bracelets are the common medium 

 of exchange, and coarse beads and cowries : for a copper 

 bracelet three large fowls are given, and three and a half 

 baskets of maize ; one basket three feet high is a woman's 

 load, and they are very strong. 



The Wachiogone are a scattered tribe among the Maarabo 

 or Suaheli, but they retain their distinct identity as a 

 people. 



The Mamba fish has breasts with milk, and utters a cry ; 

 its flesh is very white, it is not the crocodile which goes 

 by the same name, but is probably the Dugong or Peixe 

 Mulher of the Portuguese (?). Full-grown leeches come on 

 the surface in this wet country. 



Some of Katomba's men returned with forty-three tusks. 

 An animal with short horns and of a reddish colour is in 

 the north ; it is not known to the Arabs (?). 



Joseph, an Arab from Oman, says that the Simoom is 

 worse in Sham (Yemen ?) than in Oman : it blows for three 

 or four hours. Butter eaten largely is the remedy against 

 its ill effects, and this is also smeared on the body : in Oman 

 a wetted cloth is put over the head, body, and legs, while 

 this wind blows. 



1st May, 1870. — An elephant was killed which had three 

 tusks ; all of good size.* 



Rains continued ; and mud and mire from the clayey soil 

 of Manyuema were too awful to be attempted. 



2Ath May. — I sent to Bambarre for the cloth and beads 

 I left there. A party of Thani's people came south and said 

 that they had killed forty Manyuema, and lost four of their 



* Susi and Chuma say that the third tusk grew out from the base of 

 the trunk, that is, midway between the other two. — Ed. 



