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never used. They went off to where an elephant had formerly 

 been killed, and brought the tusks rotted and eaten or gnawed 

 by "Dere" (?) — a Rodent, probably the Aulocaudatus Sivin- 

 derianus. Three large rivers were crossed, breast and chin 

 deep ; in one they were five hours, and a man in a small 

 canoe went ahead sounding for water capable of being waded. 

 Much water and mud in the forest. This report makes me 

 thankful I did not go, for I should have seen nothing, and 

 been worn out by fatigue and mud. They tell me that the 

 River Metunda had black water, and took two hours to cross 

 it, breast deep. They crossed about forty smaller rivers 

 over the River Mohunga, breast deep. The River of Mbite 

 also is large. All along Lualaba and Metumbe the sheep 

 have hairy dew-laps, no wool, Tartar breed (?), small thin 

 tails. 



A broad belt of meadow-land, with no trees, lies along 

 Lualaba, beyond that it is all dense forest, and trees so 

 large, that one lying across the path is breast high : clear- 

 ances exist only around the villages. The people are very 

 expert smiths and weavers of the " Lamba," and make fine 

 large spears, knives, and needles. Market-places, called 

 " Tokos," are numerous all along Lualaba ; to these the 

 Barua of the other bank come daily in large canoes, bring- 

 ing grass-cloth, salt, flour, cassava, fowls, goats, pigs, and 

 slaves. The women are beautiful, with straight noses, and 

 well-clothed ; when the men of the districts are at war, the 

 women take their goods to market as if at peace and are 

 never molested : all are very keen traders, buying one 

 thing with another, and changing back again, and any profit 

 made is one of the enjoyments of life. 



I knew that my deserters hoped to be fed by Mohamad 

 Bogharib when we left the camp at Mamohela, but he told 

 them that he would not have them ; this took them aback, 

 but they went and lifted his ivory for him, and when a 

 parley was thus brought about, talked him over, saying 



