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a very good man, and I did not think it prudent to come 

 to a rupture with the old blackguard. 



" Laba " means in the Manyuema dialect " medicine ;" a 

 charm, " boganga :" this would make Lualaba mean the 

 liiver of Medicine or charms. Hassani thought that it 

 meant " great," because it seemed to mean flowing greatly 

 or grandly. 



Casembe caught all the slaves that escaped from Mo- 

 hamad, and placed them in charge of Fungafunga; so 

 there is little hope for fugitive slaves so long as Casembe 

 lives : this act is to the Arabs very good : he is very 

 sensible, and upright besides. 



3rd November. — Got a Kondohondo, the large double- 

 billed Hornbill (the Buceros cristata), Kakomira, of the 

 Shire, and the Sassassa of Bambarre. It is good eating, 

 and has fat of an orange tinge, like that of the zebra ; I 

 keep the bill to make a spoon of it. 



An ambassador at Stamboul or Constantinople was shown 

 a hornbill spoon, and asked if it were really the bill of the 

 Phoenix. He replied that he did not know, but he had a 

 friend in London who knew all these sort of things, so the 

 Turkish ambassador in London brought the spoon to Pro- 

 fessor Owen. He observed something in the divergences of 

 the fibres of the horn which he knew before, and went off 

 into the Museum of the College of Surgeons, and brought a 

 preserved specimen of this very bird. " God is great — God 

 is great," said the Turk, "this is the Phcenix of which we 

 have heard so often." I heard the Professor tell this at a 

 dinner of the London Hunterian Society in 1857. 



There is no great chief in Manyuema or Balegga ; all are 

 petty headmen, each of whom considers himself a chief : it 

 is the ethnic state, with no cohesion between the different 

 portions of the tribe. Murder cannot be punished except 

 by a war, in which many fall, and the feud is made worse, 

 and transmitted to their descendants. 



