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of the way ; on this side of the continent they seem less 

 fierce than I have found them in the west. 



29th June. — At one village musicians with calabashes, 

 having holes in them, flute-fashion, tried to please me by 

 their vigorous acting, and by beating drums in time. 



30th June. — We passed through the nine villages burned 

 for a single string of beads, and slept in the village of 

 Malola. 



July, 1870. — While I was sleeping quietly here, some 

 "trading Arabs camped at Nasangwa's, and at dead of night 

 one was pinned to the earth by a spear ; no doubt this was 

 in revenge for relations slain in the forty mentioned : the 

 survivors now wished to run a muck in all directions against 

 the Manyuema. 



When I came up I proposed to ask the chief if he knew 

 the assassin, and he replied that he was not sure of him, for 

 he could only conjecture who it was ; but death to all Man- 

 yuemas glared from the eyes of half-castes and slaves. For- 

 tunately, before this affair was settled in their way, I met 

 Mohamad Bogharib coming back from Kasonga's, and he 

 joined in enforcing peace : the traders went off, but let my 

 three people know, what I knew long before, that they hated 

 having a spy in me on their deeds. I told some of them 

 Avho were civil tongued that ivory obtained by bloodshed 

 was unclean evil — " unlucky" as they say : my advice to them 

 was, " Don't shed human blood, my friends ; it has guilt 

 not to be wiped off by water." Off they went ; and after- 

 wards the bloodthirsty party got only one tusk and a half, 

 while another party, which avoided shooting men, got fift\- 

 four tusks ! 



From Mohamad's people I learned that the Lualaba was 

 not in the N.W. course I had pursued, for in fact it flows 

 W.S.W. in another great bend, and they had gone far to 

 the north without seeing it, but the country was exceed- 

 ingly difficult from forest and water. As I had already 



