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half of it hanging down, prevents waste of strength, and he 

 forgets and fattens. 



Ebed's party bring 200 frasilahs of all sorts of beads; 

 they will cross Lualaba, and open a new field on the other, 

 or Young's Lualaba : all Central Africa will soon be known : 

 the evils inflicted by these Arabs are enormous, but pro- 

 bably not greater than the people inflict on each other. 

 Alerere has turned against the Arabs, and killed one; 

 robbing several others of all they had, though he has ivory 

 sufficient to send clown 7000 lbs. to the coast, and receive 

 loads of goods for 500 men in return. He looks as if 

 insane, and probably is so, and will soon be killed. His 

 insanity may be the effect of pombe, of which he drinks 

 largely, and his people may have told him that the Arabs 

 were plotting with Goambari. He restored Mohamad's ivory 

 and slaves, and sent for the other traders who had fled, 

 saying his people had spoken badly, and he would repay all 

 losses. 



The Watuta (who are the same as the Mazitu) came 

 stealing Banyamwezi cattle, and Mteza's men went out to 

 them, and twenty-two were killed, but the Lewale's people 

 did nothing. The Governor's sole anxiety is to obtain 

 ivory, and no aid is rendered to traders. Seyed Suleiman 

 the Wazeer is the author of the do-nothing policy, and 

 sent away all the sepoys as too expensive, consequently 

 the Wagogo plunder traders unchecked. It is reported 

 that Egyptian Turks came up and attacked Mteza, but lost 

 many people, and fled. The report of a Moslem Mission to 

 his country was a falsehood, though the details given were 

 circumstantial : falsehood is so common, one can believe 

 nothing the Arabs say, unless confirmed by other evidence : 

 they are the followers of the Prince of lies — Mohamad, 

 whose cool appropriation of the knowledge gained at 

 Damascus, and from the Jews, is perfectly disgusting. All 

 his deeds were done when unseen by any witnesses. It is 



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