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other side of the Loeki, another comes from the River 

 Lombadzo, or Lombazo, which is west of Loeki (this may 

 be another name for the Lomame), the country is called 

 Nanga, and the tribe Nongo, chief Mpimzo. The Malobo 

 tribe is under the chiefs Yunga and Lomadyo. Another 

 toothless boy said that he came from the Lomame : the 

 upper teeth extracted seem to say that the tribe have cattle ; 

 the knocking out the teeth is in imitation of the animals 

 they almost worship. No traders had ever visited them ; 

 this promises ivory to the present visitors : all that is now 

 done with the ivory there is to make rude blowing horns and 

 bracelets. 



21th April. — Waiting wearily and anxiously ; we cannot 

 move people who are far off and make them come near with 

 news. Even the owners of canoes say, " Yes, yes ; we shall 

 bring them," but do not stir ; they doubt us, and my slaves 

 increase the distrust by their lies to the Manyuema. 



28^ April. — Abed sent over Manyuema to buy slaves 

 for him and got a pretty woman for 300 cowries and a 

 hundred strings of beads ; she can be sold again to an Arab 

 for much more in ivory. Abed himself gave $130 for a 

 woman-cook, and she fled to me when put in chains for some 

 crime : I interceded, and she was loosed : I advised her not 

 to offend again, because I could not beg for her twice. 



Hassani with ten slaves dug at the malachite mines of 

 Katanga for three months, and gained a hundred frasilahs 

 of copper, or 3500 lbs. We hear of a half-caste reaching 

 the other side of Lomame, probably from Congo or Ambriz, 

 but the messengers had not seen him. 



1st May, 1871. — Katoinba's people arrived from the Babisa,. 

 where they sold all their copper at two rings for a tusk, and 

 then found that abundance of ivory still remained : door- 

 posts and house-pillars had been made of ivory which now 

 was rotten. The people of Babisa kill elephants now and 

 bring tusks by the dozen, till the traders get so many that 



