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think you fear them, they will climb over you." I clothed 

 mine for nothing, and ever after they have tried to ride 

 roughshod over me, and mutiny on every occasion ! 



14th April. — Kahembe came over, and promises to bring 

 a canoe ; but he is not to be trusted ; he presented Abed 

 with two slaves, and is full of fair promises about the 

 canoe, which he sees I am anxious to get. They all think 

 that my buying a canoe means carrying war to the left 

 bank ; and now my Banian slaves encourage the idea : " He 

 does not wish slaves nor ivory," say they, " but a canoe, in 

 order to kill Manyuema." Need it be wondered at that 

 people, who had never heard of strangers or white men 

 before I popped down among them, believed the slander? 

 The slaves were aided in propagating the false accusation 

 by the half-caste Ujijian slaves at the camp. Hassani fed 

 them every day ; and, seeing that he was a bigoted Moslem, 

 they equalled him in prayers in his sitting-place seven or 

 eight times a day! They were adepts at lying, and the 

 first Manyuema words they learned were used to propagate 

 falsehood. 



I have been writing part of a despatch, in case of meeting 

 people from the French settlement on the Gaboon at Loeki, 

 but the canoe affair is slow and tedious : the people think 

 only of war : they are a bloody-minded race. 



15th April. — The Manyuema tribe, called Bagenya, 

 occupy the left bank, opposite Nyafigwe. A spring of brine 

 rises in the bed of a river, named Lofubu, and this the 

 Bayenga inspissate by boiling, and sell the salt at market. 

 The Loniame is about ten days west of Lualaba, and very 

 large; the confluence of Lomame, or Loeki, is about six 

 days down below Nyafigwe by canoe ; the river Nyanze is 

 still less distant. 



16th April. — On the Nyanze stands the principal town 

 and market of the chief, Zurampela. Bashid visited him, 

 and got two slaves on promising to bring a war-party from 



