THE RIVER THAT FLOWED NORTH, NORTH, NORTH. 423 
Black pigs. 
Goats. 
Sheep. 
Parrots. 
Palm-wine (Malofuh 
Pombe (beer). 
Mussels and oysters 
from the river. 
Fresh fish. 
Dried fish. 
"Whitebait. 
Snails (dried). 
Salt. 
White ants. 
Grasshoppers. 
Tobacco (dried leaf). 
Pipes. 
Fishing-nets. 
Basket-work. 
Cassava bread. 
Cassava flour. 
Copper bracelets. 
Iron wire. 
Iron knobs. 
Hoes. 
Spears. 
Bows and arrows. 
Hatchets. 
Battan-cane staves. 
Stools. 
Crockery. 
Powdered camwood. 
Grass cloths. 
Grass mats. 
Fuel. 
Ivory. 
Slaves. 
From this it will be perceived that the wants of 
Nyangwe are very tolerably supplied. And how like 
any other market-place it was ! with its noise and 
murmur of human voices. The same rivalry in extoll- 
ing tlieir wares, the eager quick action, the emphatic 
gesture, the inquisitive look, the facial expressions of 
scorn and triumph, anxiety, joy, plausibility, were all 
there. I discovered, too, the surprising fact that the 
aborigines of Manyema possess just the same inordinate 
ideas in respect to their wares as London, Paris, and New 
York shopkeepers. Perhaps the Manyema people are 
not so voluble, but they compensate for lack of language 
by gesture and action, which are unspeakably eloquent. 
