1871.] MANYUEMA HONESTY. 127 



through in coming north, often ran forth to present me 

 with bananas, but it seemed through fear ; when I sat down 

 and ate the bananas they brought beer of bananas, and I 

 paid for all. A stranger in the market had ten human 

 under jaw-bones hung by a string over his shoulder: on 

 inquiry he professed to have killed and eaten the owners, 

 and showed with his knife how he cut up his victim. When 

 I expressed disgust he and others laughed. I see new faces 

 every market-day. Two nice girls were trying to sell their 

 venture, which was roasted white ants, called " Gumbe." 



30th May. — The river fell four inches during the last four 

 days ; the colour is very dark brown, and large quantities of 

 aquatic plants and trees float down. Mologhwe, or chief 

 Ndambo, came and mixed blood with the intensely bigoted 

 Moslem, Hassani : this is to secure the nine canoes. He next 

 went over to have more palaver about them, and they do not 

 hesitate to play me false by detraction. The Manyuema, 

 too, are untruthful, but very honest ; we never lose an 

 article by them : fowls and goats are untouched, and if a 

 fowl is lost, we know that it has been stolen by an Arab 

 slave. When with Mohamad Bogharib, we had all to keep 

 our fowls at the Manyuema villages to prevent them being 

 stolen by our own slaves, and it is so here. Hassani denies 

 complicity with them, butt it is quite apparent that he and 

 others encourage them in mutiny. 



5th June, 1871. — The river rose again six inches and fell 

 three. Eain nearly ceased, and large masses of fleecy clouds 

 float down here from the north-west, with accompanying cold. 



1th June. — I fear that I must inarch on foot, but the mud 

 is forbidding. 



11th June. — New moon last night, and I believe Dugumbe 

 will leave Kasonga's to-day. Eiver down three inches. 



14th June.' — Hassani got nine canoes, and put sixty- 

 three persons in three: I cannot get one. Dugumbe re- 

 ported near, but detained by his divination, at which he is 



