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march was about seven miles. A headman who went with 

 us plagued another chief to give me a goat; I refused to 

 take what was not given willingly, but the slaves secured 

 it; and I threatened our companion, Kama, with dismissal 

 from our party if he became a tool in slave hands. The 

 arum is common. 



28th March. — The Banian slaves are again trying com- 

 pulsion — I don't know what for. They refused to take 

 their bead rations, and made Chakanga spokesman : I could 

 not listen to it, as he has been concocting a mutiny against 

 me. It is excessively trying, and so many difficulties have 

 been put in my way I doubt whether the Divine favour and 

 will is on my side. 



We came six miles to-day, crossing many rivulets running 

 to the Kunda, which also we crossed in a canoe ; it is almost 

 thirty yards wide and deep: afterwards, near the village 

 where we slept, we crossed the Luja about twenty yards 

 wide, going into the Kunda and Lualaba. I am greatly 

 distressed because there is no law here; they probably 

 mean to create a disturbance at Abed's place, to which we 

 are near : the Lord look on it. 



29th March. — Crossed the Liya, and next day the 

 Moangoi, by two well-made wattle bridges at an island in 

 its bed : it is twenty yards, and has a very strong current, 

 which makes all the market people fear it. We then 

 crossed the Molembe in a canoe, which is fifteen yards, but 

 swelled by rains and many rills. Came 7£ miles to sleep 

 at one of the outlying villages of Nyangwe: about sixty 

 market people came past us from the Chitoka or market- 

 place, on the banks of Lualaba; they go thither at night, 

 and come away about midday, having disposed of most of 

 their goods by barter. The country is open, and dotted 

 over with trees, chiefly a species of Bauhinia, that resists 

 the annual grass burnings; there are trees along the 

 watercourses, and many villages, each with a host of pigs. 



