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trict, where a good deal of iron is worked, and where they found a party of 

 men belonging to a traveller called Juinah ibn Salim, and they promised to 

 send a man to show the way to Kasongo's village. They also said that the 

 second caravan, of which Cameron had been told, was commanded by a Por- 

 tuguese from the West Coast. After a day's halt at Munza, they went with 

 Ngoori, a man detailed by Kasongo to act as a sort of dragoman to Jumah 

 ihn Salim ; and after three days they arrived at Kilemba, where our traveller 

 was most warmly and hospitably welcomed by Jumah ibn Salim. He found 

 that Kasongo was away on an excursion to collect tribute, and punish those 

 who had neglected to pay it. In this work he was assisted by numerous 

 persons, both from the Arab and Portuguese caravans, who were rewarded 

 by being allowed to make slaves of all captives they could obtain. 



The day after their arrival, Kendele, as the Portuguese trader was called 

 by the natives, came over from his camp, about a mile distant, to pay a visit 

 to the Englishman. He said that he was soon going west, but that he must 

 first collect his various detached parties, which would occupy about a month, 

 and that directly that was done he should bid farewell to Kasongo, and start. 

 On Cameron asking him if he would require any payment for allowing him 

 to travel in his company, he said that, although he was black, he was all the 

 same as a white man, and never told lies, and would trust to his generosity. 

 His proper name turned out to be Jose Antonio Alviz, and he was a native 

 of Dondo on the Kwanza. He eventually proved to be trading from Bihe, 

 though at first he said he came from Cassange, owing to his having heard 

 that Cameron wanted to go there. 



As Senhor Alviz said he was not going to start for a month, Cameron 

 determined to employ the time in visiting Lake Mohrya, on which he had 

 heard there were regular lake dwellings. He found it difficult to make up 

 his party, and in consequence of his wanting to take only half-a-dozen men 

 with him, all tried to shirk going. At last he made his start on the 30th of 

 October, 1874, and after marching through a pretty, but half-deserted coun- 

 try, he arrived at the lake. It was a mere pond compared to the giant lakes 

 of Africa, and its visible surface was much diminished by floating vegetation ; 

 but in the clear waters were the regular lake dwellings. They were clustered 

 together in villages ; each house stood alone, though in many cases only 

 separated a few yards from its neighbour ; the intermediate space being filled 

 up by ruined piles of former houses. He tried in vain to obtain canoes to 

 visit these curious dwellings. One of the chief causes of his failure was the 

 presence of a guide furnished by Fume a Kenna (the wife of Kasongo), who, 

 exercising his prerogative as one of the royal household, used to rob all the 

 country folks he came across. He often remonstrated with the man on this 

 practice, and tried to bribe him to refrain ; but he said it was his right granted 

 to him by his king, and that nothing should prevent his exercising it. 



