WANT OP POLITICAL COHESION. 
555 
There is not a single great chief in all Manyema. No 
matter what name the different divisions of people bear — 
Manyema, Balegga, Babire, Bazire, Bakoos — there is no 
political cohesion ; not one king or kingdom. Each man 
is independent of every other. The people are industrious, 
and most of them cultivate the soil largely. We found 
them everywhere very honest. When detained at Bara 
barre, we had to send our goats and fowls to the Manyema 
villages, to prevent them being all stolen by the Zanzibar 
slaves. The slave owners had to do the same. 
Manyema land is the only country in Central Africa I 
have seen where cotton is not cultivated, spun, and woven. 
The clothing is that known in Madagascar, as “ lambas,” 
or grass cloth, made from the leaves of the “ Muale " 
palm. 
They call the good spirit above “Ngulu,” or the Great 
One, and the spirit of evil, who resides in the deep, “Mu- 
latnbu.” A hot fountain near Bambarre is supposed to be- 
long to this being, the author of death by drowning and 
other misfortunes. Yours, etc., 
David Livingstone, 
Her Majesty’s Consul, Inner Africa. 
Dr. Livingstone to Earl Granville. 
TJjui, Nov. It, 1871. 
Mr Lord In my letter dated Bambarre, November, 
1870, now enclosed, i stated my grave suspicions that a 
packet of about forty letters— despatches, copies of all the 
astronomical observations from the coast onwards, and 
sketch maps on tracing paper, intended to com ey a clear 
idea of all the discoveries up to the time of arrival at 
Ujiji — would be destroyed. It was delivered to the agent 
here of the Governor of Unyanycmbe, and I paid him in 
full all he demanded to transmit it to Syde bin Salem 
Buraschid, the so-called Governor, who is merely a trade 
agent of certain Banians of Zanzibar, and a person who is 
