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daylight, and went about six miles to the village of Marik- 

 wara, where I spent the night when coming this way. The 

 chief Mokanclira convoyed us hither: I promised him a 

 cloth if I came across from Lomame. He wonders much at 

 the underground houses, and never heard of them till I told 

 him about them. Many of the gullies which were running 

 fast when we came were now dry. Thunder began, and a 

 few drops of rain fell. 



2Srdr-24.th July. — We crossed the Kiver Kunda, of fifty 

 yards, in two canoes, and then ascended from the valley of 

 denudation, in which it flows to the ridge Lobango. Crowds 

 followed, all anxious to carry loads for a few beads. Several 

 market people came to salute, who knew that we had no 

 hand in the massacre, as we are a different people from the 

 Arabs. In going and coming they must have a march of 25 

 miles with loads so heavy no slave would carry them. They 

 speak of us as " good : " the anthropologists think that to 

 be spoken of as wicked is better. Ezekiel says that the 

 Most High put His comeliness upon Jerusalem : if He does 

 not impart of His goodness to me I shall never be good : if 

 He does not put of His comeliness on me I shall never be 

 comely in soul, but be like these Arabs in whom Satan has 

 full sway — the god of this world having blinded their eyes, 



25th July. — We came over a beautiful country yester- 

 day, a vast hollow of denudation, with much cultivation, 

 intersected by a ridge some 300 feet high, on which 

 the villages are built : this is Lobango. The path runs 

 along the top of the ridge, and we see the fine country 

 below all spread out with different shades of green, as on a 

 map. The colours show the shapes of the different planta- 

 tions in the great hollow drained by the Kunda. After 

 crossing the fast flowing Kakembai, which flows into the 

 Kunda, and it into Lualaba, we rose on to another inter- 

 secting ridge, having a great many villages burned by 

 Matereka or Salem Mokadam's people, since we passed them 



