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Lufira at Katanga is a full bow-shot wide; it goes into 

 Kamolondo. Cbakomo is east of Lufira Junction. Kikonze 

 Kalanza is on the west of it, and Mkana, or the underground 

 dwellings, still further west : some are only two days from 

 Katanga. The Chorwe people are friendly. Kamolondo is 

 about ten days distant from Katanga. 



25th April. — News came that four men sent by Abed 

 to buy ivory had been entrapped, and two killed. The 

 rest sent for aid to punish the murderers, and Abed wished 

 me to send my people to bring the remaining two men back. 

 I declined ; because, no matter what charges I gave, my 

 Banian slaves would be sure to shed human blood. We can 

 go nowhere but the people of the country ask us to kill 

 their fellow-men, nor can they be induced to go to villages 

 three miles off, because there, in all probability, live the 

 murderers of fathers, uncles, or grandfathers — a dreadful 

 state truly. The traders are as bloodthirsty every whit as 

 the Manyuema, where no danger exists, but in most cases 

 where the people can fight they are as civil as possible. 

 At Moere Mpanda's, the son of Casembe, Mohamad Bog- 

 harib left a debt of twenty-eight slaves and eight bars 

 of copper, each seventy pounds, and did not dare to fire a 

 shot because they saw they had met their match : here his 

 headmen are said to have bound the headmen of villages 

 till a ransom was paid in tusks ! Had they only gone 

 three days further to the Babisa, to whom Moene-mokaia's 

 men went, they would have got fine ivory at two rings a 

 tusk, while they had paid from ten to eighteen. Here it is 

 as sad a tale to tell as was that of the Manganja scattered 

 and peeled by the Waiyau agents of the Portuguese of Tette. 

 The good Lord look on it. 



2&h April. — Chitovu called nine slaves bought by Abed's 

 people from the Kuss country, west of the Lualaba, and asked 

 them about their tribes and country for me. One, with his 

 upper front teeth extracted, was of the tribe Maloba, on the 



