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‘ We will give you cowries and beads.’ ‘ Good, come 
along.’ 
“We travelled six days, and then we came to the 
border village of their country. They would not allow 
us to penetrate farther until they had seen their king 
and obtained his consent. In the meantime they said 
we might trade round about. We did trade. We pur- 
chased in two days more ivory than the other countries 
could have supplied us with in two weeks. 
“ On the third day the little people came back and 
told us we might go and live in the king’s village. It 
was a mere long street, you know, with houses extend- 
JIANYEMA YOUTH. MANY KMA ADULT. 
ing a long distance on either side. They gave us a 
portion of the village to live in. The king was kind, at 
least he appeared so the first day ; the next day he was 
not so kind, but he sold us ivory in plenty. There was 
no lack of that. The dwarfs came from all parts. Oh ! 
it is a big country ! and everybody brought ivory, until 
we had about four hundred tusks, big and little, as 
much as we could carry. We had bought it with coj^per, 
beads, and cowries. No cloths, for the dwarfs were all 
naked, king and all. 
“ They told us that eleven days’ journey south-west was 
another country, where there was even more ivory than 
they had, and four days beyond that again was a great 
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