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own number ; nine villages were burned, and all this about 

 a single string of beads which a man tried to steal ! 



June, 1870. — Mohamad bin Nassur and Akila's men 

 brought 116 tusks from the north, where the people are 

 said to be all good and obliging : Akila's chief man had 

 a large deep ulcer on the foot from the mud. When we 

 had the people here, Kassessa gave ten goats and one tusk 

 to hire them to avenge a feud in which his elder brother 

 was killed, and they went; the spoils secured were 31 cap- 

 tives, 60 goats, and about 40 Manyuema killed : one slave- 

 of the attacking party was killed, and two badly wounded. 

 Thani's man, Yahood, who was leader in the other case of 

 40 killed, boasted before me of the deed. I said, " You 

 were sent here not to murder, but to trade ; " he replied,. 

 " We are sent to murder." Bin Nassur said, " The English 

 are always killing people;" I replied, "Yes, but only 

 slavers who do the deeds that were done yesterday." 



Various other tribes sent large presents to the Arabs to 

 avert assaults, and tusks too were offered. 



The rains had continued into June, and fifty-eight inches 

 feU. 



26th June. — Now my people failed me ; so, with only 

 three attendants, Susi, Chuma, and Gardner, I started off 

 to the north-west for the Lualaba. The numbers of run- 

 ning rivulets to be crossed were surprising, and at each, for 

 some forty yards, the path had been worked by the feet of 

 passengers into adhesive mud : we crossed fourteen in 

 one day — some thigh deep; most of them run into the 

 Liya, which we crossed, and it flows to the Lualaba. We 

 passed through many villages, for the paths all lead through 

 human dwellings. Many people presented bananas, and 

 seemed surprised when I made a small return gift ; one 

 man ran after me with a sugar-cane; I paid for lodgings 

 too : here the Arabs never do. 



28th June. — The driver ants were in millions in some part 



