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effect on him. Merere drinks pombe freely, but never uses 

 bange : he alone kills sheep ; he is a lover of mutton and 

 beef, but neither goats nor fowls are touched by him. 



9th November. — I sent to Lohombo for dura, and planted 

 some Nyumbo. I long excessively to be away and finish 

 my work by the two Lacustrine rivers, Lualaba of Webb 

 and Young, but wait only for Syde and Dugumbe, who 

 may have letters, and as I do not intend to return hither, 

 but go through Karagwe* homewards, I should miss them 

 altogether. I groan and am in bitterness at the delay, but 

 thus it is : I pray for help to do what is right, but sorely 

 am I perplexed, and grieved and mourn: I cannot give 

 up making a complete work of the exploration. 



10th November. — A party of Katomba's men arrived on 

 their way to Ujiji for carriers, they report that a foray was 

 made S.W. of Mamohela to recover four guns, which were 

 captured from Katomba; three were recovered, and ten of 

 the Arab party slain. The people of Manyuema fought very 

 fiercely with arrows, and not till many were killed and 

 others mutilated would they give up the guns ; they pro- 

 bably expected this foray, and intended to fight till the last. 

 They had not gone in search of ivory while this was enact- 

 ing, consequently Mohamad's men have got the start of 

 them completely, by going along Lualaba to Kasongo's, and 

 then along the western verge of the Metamba or forest to 

 Loinde' or Eindi River. The last men sent took to fighting 

 instead of trading, and returned empty ; the experience 

 gained thus, and at the south-west, will probably lead them 

 to conclude that the Manyuema are not to be shot down 

 without reasonable cause. They have sown rice and maize 

 at Mamohela, but cannot trade now where they got so much 

 ivory before. Five men were killed at Eindi or Loinde, 

 and one escaped : the reason of this outbreak by men who 

 have been so peaceable is not divulged, but anyone seeing 

 the wholesale plunder to which the houses and gardens were 



