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some of the same hills that overlook Kwihara, where I live. 

 At the bottom of the slope swampy land lies, and during 

 the Masika it is flooded and runs westwards. The sloping- 

 plain on the North of the central drain is called Kaze — that 

 on the South is Tabora, and this is often applied to the 

 whole space between the hills north and south. Sultan bin 

 Ali is very hospitable. He is of the Bedawee Arabs, and a 

 famous marksman with his long Arab gun or matchlock. 

 He often killed hares with it, always hitting them in the 

 head. He is about sixty-five years of age, black eyed, six 

 feet high and inclined to stoutness, and his long beard is 

 nearly all grey. He provided two bountiful meals for self 

 and attendants. 



Called on Mohamad bin Nassur— recovering from sick- 

 ness. He presented a goat and a large quantity of guavas. 

 He gave the news that came from Dugumbe's underling 

 Nserere, and men now at Ujiji ; they went S.W. to country 

 called Noinbe, it is near Rua, and where copper is smelted. 

 After I left them on account of the massacre at Nyangwe, 

 they bought much ivory, but acting in the usual Arab way, 

 plundering and killing, they aroused the Bakuss' ire, and 

 as they are very numerous, about 200 were killed, and none 

 of Dugumbe"s party. They brought fifty tusks to Ujiji. 

 We dare not pronounce positively on any event in life, but 

 this looks like prompt retribution on the perpetrators of the- 

 horrible and senseless massacre of Nyaiigwe. It was not 

 vengeance by the relations of the murdered ones we saw 

 shot and sunk in the Lualaba, for there is no communication 

 between the people of Nyangwe and the Bakuss or people of 

 Nombe of Lomame — that massacre turned my heart com- 

 pletely against Dugumbe's people. To go with them to 

 Lomame as my slaves were willing to do, was so repugnant 

 I preferred to return that weary 400 or 600 miles to Ujiji. 

 I mourned over my being baffled and thwarted all the way,, 

 but tried to believe that it was all for the best — this news. 



