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chiefs were then called, and it was announced to them 
that Tippu-Tib, with 140 guns and seventy Wanyamwezi 
spearmen, would escort us a distance of sixty camps, 
when, if we found the countries hostile to us, and no 
hopes of meeting other traders, we should return with 
him to Nyangwe. If we met Portuguese or Turkish 
traders, a portion of us would continue the journey with 
them, and the remainder would return with Tippu-Tib 
to Nyangwe. This announcement was received with 
satisfaction, and the chiefs said that, owing to Tippu- 
Tib’s presence, no Arab at Nyangwe would dare to. 
harbour a runaway from the Expedition. 
Cowries and beads were then counted out and given 
that evening to Tippu-Tib, as ration money for ten 
days from the day of his departure from Mwana 
Mamba. 
The next morning, being the 24th of October, the 
Expedition left Mwana Mamba in high spirits. The 
good effect of the contract with Tippu-Tib had already 
brought us recruits, for on the road I observed several 
strange faces of men who, on our arrival at the first 
came, Marimbu, eleven miles north-west from Mwana 
Mamba, appeared before my tent, and craved to be 
permitted to follow us. They received an advance in 
cloth, and their names were entered on the muster-list 
of the Expedition at the same rate of pay as the other 
Wanyamwezi and Wangwana. 
Through a fine rolling country, but depopulated, with 
every mile marked by ruined villages, we marched in a 
north-westerly direction, thirteen miles to Benangongo, 
from Marimbu, and, on the 25th, arrived at Ivankumba, 
after a journey of twelve miles, crossing the Mshama 
stream by the way. 
From our camp at Ivankumba we were pointed out 
Nyangwe, and, as it was only five miles distant, some 
of the people pretended to be able to see it. About one 
mile from us was the marshy valley of the Kuncla river, 
another tributary of the Lualaba, which rises in Uzimba ; 
to the east-north-east of us, about eight miles off, rose 
some hilly cones, spurs of the Manyema hills ; on the 
