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fighting, hence his desire to get rid of me when I went 

 north : he got one and a half tusks, but little ivory, but 

 Katornba's party got fifty tusks ; Abdullah had got two 

 tusks, and had also been fighting, and Katomba had sent a 

 fighting party down to Lolinde ; plunder and murder is 

 Ujijian trading. Mbarawa got his ivory on the Lindi, or as 

 he says, " Urindi," which has black water, and is very large : 

 an arrow could not be shot across its stream, 400 or 500 yards 

 wide, it had to be crossed by canoes,, and goes into Lualaba. 

 It is curious that all think it necessary to say to me, " The 

 Manyuenia are bad, very bad;" the Balegga will be let 

 alone, because they can fight, and we shall hear nothing of 

 their badness. 



10th October. — I came out of my hut to-day, after being- 

 confined to it since the 22nd July, or eighty days, by 

 irritable ulcers on the feet. The last twenty days I suffered 

 from fever, which reduced my strength, taking away my 

 voice, and purging me. My appetite was good, but the third 

 mouthful of any food caused nausea and vomiting — purging 

 took place and profuse sweating ; it was choleraic, and how 

 many Manyuema died of it we could not ascertain. While 

 this epidemic raged here, we heard of cholera terribly severe 

 on the way to the coast. I am thankful to feel myself well. 



Only one ulcer is open, the size of a split pea : malachite 

 was the remedy most useful, but the beginning of the rains 

 may have helped the cure, as it does to others ; copper 

 rubbed down is used when malachite cannot be had. We 

 expect Syde bin Habib soon : he will take to the river, and 

 I hope so shall I. The native traders reached people who 

 had horns of oxen, got from the left bank of the Lualaba. 

 Katornba's people got most ivory, namely, fifty tusks ; the 

 others only four. The Metamba or forest is of immense 

 extent, and there is room for much ivory to be picked up 

 at five or seven bracelets of copper per tusk, if the slaves 

 sent will only be merciful. The nine villages destroyed, 



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