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other chiefs in Africa, because his name was Antonio Antonio Kagnombe, and 

 that his likeness had gone to Lisbon, and I must not think he had not finer 

 clothes, with gold lace and other fine things. After a while he went into an 

 inner enclosure, and there the stools and chairs were arranged in a circle, and 

 he went to one of his houses and brought out a bottle of aguardiente and 

 wanted everybody to have a drink round, but he took care to have the largest 

 sip for himself, after which there was a little palaver, and I went away to my 

 hut, and the next morning I got away and marched over to the house of Senor 

 Gonsalves. Here I was astonished at finding myself in civilisation once more. 

 Remaining there one night I marched through an open prairie country, with 

 a few bushes and trees, and intersected by many streams, to the settlement 

 of Joa B. Ferreira, who enjoys the position of a district judge on account of 

 his having travelled a good deal. 



"Kisanji was the first place where we found that milk was to be got, 

 although the first where we saw cattle was in Lovali. From Kisanji to the 

 coast there are no inhabitants, the whole being a desolate tract of mountains, 

 the marching lying through passes and over granite rocks, skeletons lying by 

 the side, showing the severity of the march, signs of the slave trade still re- 

 maining in slave-forks and clogs lying by the roadside. After leaving the 

 pass we went across a barren plain till we came close to the coast, and then 

 we came upon what appeared sea cliffs facing the land, as if a continent had 

 sunk in what is now the Atlantic, and Africa had been upheaved afterwards. 

 At forty-five miles from the coast we sighted the sea, and our feelings were 

 even more thankful than those expressed by Xenophon's 10,000. The main 

 point of the discoveries I made I believe to be the connection of the Tangan- 

 yika with the Congo system. The Lukuga runs out of the Tanganyika, and 

 there is no place to which it can run but to the Lurwa, which it joins at a 

 short distance below Lake Moero. The levels I have taken prove conclusively 

 that it can have nothing whatever to do with the Nile. 



" The blot upon this fair country is the continuance of the slave trade, 

 which is carried on to a great extent to supply those countries which have 

 already had their population depleted by the old coast trade. The chiefs 

 like Kasongo and Meta Yafa are utterly and entirely irresponsible, and would 

 give a man leave, for the present of two or three guns, to go and destroy as 

 many villages and catch as many people as he could for slaves. The Warna 

 especially, although holders of slaves, would rather die than be slaves them- 

 selves. I have heard instances of their being taken even as far as the island 

 of Zanzibar, and then making their way back single-handed to their own 

 country. The Portuguese are the principal agents in this trade, as they are 

 able to dispose of them advantageously for ivory and other products in many 

 countries. The Arabs, as a rule, only buy enough slaves to act as their por- 

 ters and servants for cultivating the ground round the permanent camps. 



