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Abed against Chipange, who by similar means obtained 

 the help of Salem Mokadam to secure eighty-two captives : 

 Eashid will leave this as soon as possible, sell the slaves, 

 and leave Zurampela to find out the fraud ! This deceit, 

 which is an average specimen of the beginning of half-caste 

 dealings, vitiates his evidence of a specimen of cannibalism 

 which he witnessed ; but it was after a fight that the victims 

 were cut up, and this agrees with the fact that the Manyuema 

 eat only those who are killed in war. Some have averred 

 that captives, too, are eaten, and a slave is bought with a 

 goat to be eaten ; but this I very strongly doubt. 



17 th April. — Rainy. 



ISth April. — I found that the Lepidosiren is brought to 

 market in pots with water in them, also white ants roasted, 

 and the large snail, achetina, and a common snail : the 

 Lepidosiren is called " semhe." 



Abed went a long way to examine a canoe, but it was 

 still further, and he turned back. 



19th April. — Dreary waiting, but Abed proposes to join and 

 trade along with me : this will render our party stronger, 

 and he will not shoot people in my company; we shall 

 hear Katomba's people's story too. 



20th April. — Katomba a chief was to visit us yesterday, 

 but failed, probably through fear. 



The chief Mokandira says that Loeki is small where it 

 joins Lualaba, but another, which they call Lomame, is very 

 much larger, and joins Lualaba too : rapids are reported 

 on it. 



21st April — A common salutation reminds me of the 

 Bechuana's " U le hatsi " (thou art on earth) ; " Ua tala " 

 (thou lookest) ; " Ua boka," or by oka (thou awakest) ; " U ri 

 ho " (thou art here) ; " U li koni " (thou art here) — about pure 

 " Sichuana," and " Nya," No, is identical. The men here deny 

 that cannibalism is common : they eat only those killed in 

 war, and, it seems, in revenge, for, said Mokandira, " the meat 



