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the confession that he had killed Moenekuss' son. This son 

 had some of the father's wisdom : the others he never could 

 get to act like men of sense. 



19th October. — Bambarre. The ringleading deserters sent 

 Chimia to say that they were going with the people of 

 Mohamad (who left to-day), to the Metamba, but I said that 

 I had nought to say to them. They would go now to 

 the Metamba, whom, on deserting, they said they so much 

 feared, and they think nothing of having left me to go 

 with only three attendants, and get my feet torn to pieces 

 in mud and sand. They probably meant to go back to the 

 women at Mamohela, who fed them in the absence of their 

 husbands. They were told by Mohamad that they must 

 not follow his people, and he gave orders to bind them, and 

 send them back if they did. They think that no punish- 

 ment will reach them whatever they do : they are freemen, 

 and need not work or do anything but beg. "English," 

 they call themselves, and the Arabs fear them, though the 

 eagerness with which they engaged in slave-hunting showed 

 them to be genuine niggers. 



20th October. — The first heavy rain of this season fell 

 yesterday afternoon. It is observable that the permanent 

 halt to which the Manyuema have come is not affected by 

 the appearance of superior men among them : they are 

 stationary, and improvement is unknown. Moenekuss paid 

 smiths to teach his sons, and they learned to work in copper 

 and iron, but he never could get them to imitate his own 

 generous and obliging deportment to others ; he had to 

 reprove them perpetually for mean shortsightedness, and 

 when he died he virtually left no successor, for his sons are 

 both narrowminded, mean, shortsighted creatures, without 

 dignity or honour. All they can say of their forefathers is 

 that they came from Lualaba up Luamo, then to Luelo, and 

 thence here. The name seems to mean " forest people " — 

 Manyuema. 



