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lake, where there were ships. The lake was near the 
country of a king whom they called Ngombe. 
“ We did not starve in the dwarf land the first ten 
days. Bananas as long as my arm, and plantains as 
long as the dwarfs were tall. One plantain was suffi- 
cient for a man for one day. 
“ We thought, seeing that we had obtained as much 
ivory as we were able to carry, that we had better return. 
We told the king that we wanted to depart. To our 
surprise, the king — he was no longer than my leg — said 
that we should not be allowed to go. ‘ Why ? ’ we 
asked. ‘ Because this is my country, and you are not 
to go away until I say.’ ‘ But we have finished our 
business, and we have had 
trade sufficient ; we don’t 
wish to buy any more.’ 
4 You must buy all I have 
got ; I want more cowries ; ’ 
and he ground his teeth, 
and he looked just like a 
wild monkey. 
“ Mtagamoyo laughed at 
him, for he was very funny, 
and then told him that 
we would have to go away, 
1 tecause we had many friends 
MANYEMA YOUNG WOMAN. 
waiting for us. He said, ‘ You shall not go from my 
country.’ 
“We held another shauri, when it was agreed that if 
we stayed longer we might get into trouble and lose 
our ivory, and that it was better to leave within two 
days. But we did not have to wait two days for the 
trouble ! It came even before we had finished our 
shauri. We heard a woman scream loud. We rushed 
out, and met some Wangwana running towards us, and 
among them a woman with a dwarfs arrow in her 
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breast. 
“‘What’s this, what’s this?’ we asked, and they 
cried out, ‘ The dwarfs shot this woman while she was 
drawing water, and they are coming in immense numbers 
