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and Syde bin Ali come to Nyembe, thence to Nsama's, cross 

 Lualaba at Mpweto's, follow left bank of that river till they 

 cross the next Lualaba, and so into Lunda of Matianivo. 

 Much ivory may be obtained by this course, and it shows 

 enterprise. Syde bin Habib and Dugumbe will open up 

 the Lualaba this year, and I am hoping to enter the West 

 Lualaba, or Young's River, and if possible go up to Katanga. 

 The Lord be my guide and helper. I feel the want of 

 medicine strongly, almost as much as the want of men. 



16^ October. — Moenemgoi, the chief, came to tell me 

 that Monamyembo had sent five goats to Lohombo to 

 get a charm to kill him. " Would the English and Kolo- 

 kolo (Mohamad) allow him to be killed while they were 

 here ?" I said that it was a false report, but he believes it 

 firmly : Monamyembo sent his son to assure us that he was 

 slandered, but thus quarrels and bloodshed feuds arise ! 



The great want of the Manyuema is national life, of this 

 they have none: each headman is independent of every 

 other. Of industry they have no lack, and the villagers are 

 orderly towards each other, but they go no further. If a 

 man of another district ventures among them, it is at his 

 peril ; he is not regarded with more favour as a Manyuema 

 than one of a herd of buffaloes is by the rest : and he is 

 almost sure to be killed. 



Moenekuss had more wisdom than his countrymen: his 

 eldest son went over to Monamyembo (one of his subjects) 

 and was there murdered by five spear wounds. The old 

 chief went and asked who had slain his son. All professed 

 ignorance, whilst some suggested " perhaps the Bahombo did 

 it," so he went off to them, but they also denied it and laid 

 it at the door of Monamdenda, from whom he got the same 

 reply when he arrived at his place — no one knew, and so the 

 old man died. This, though he was heartbroken, was called 

 witchcraft by Monamyembo. Eleven people were murdered, 

 and after this cruel man was punished he sent a goat with 



