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limited stock of drugs tliat I had left, to give an emetic 
that proved very effectual. He had made himself ill by 
eating too freely of the fruit of a shrub called ki-moko- 
nonga; the symptoms of the man and the smell of the 
fruit made me inclined to believe that he was suffering: 
from the effects of prussic acich The fruit itself was 
about an inch long, and half an inch thick ; it had a 
yellowish pulp, an oval kernel, and in flavour was 
not unlike bitter al¬ 
monds. The emetic 
soon relieved the suf¬ 
ferer, and next day 
he was ready for work 
again. 
The Mabunda chief from Sioma came to see me, and 
in the intervals between the attacks of fever, I took 
the opportunity to ask him, as well as the guides and 
boatmen, all the questions I could about the land and 
population of the Marutse empire. Our conversation 
generally turned upon the Livangas, Libele, and Lu- 
yanas, the tribes between the Chobe and the Zambesi, 
and upon the independent Bamashi, on the lower Chobe, 
who are also called Luyanas, and are subject to three 
