A number of men run before her, brandishing swords and battle-axes, and one beats a hollow instrument, giving warning to passengers to clear the way: she has two enormous pipes ready filled for smoking.

She is very attentive to her agriculture; cassava is the chief product; sweet potatoes, maize, sorghum, pennisetum, millet, ground-nuts, cotton.

The people seem more savage than any I have yet seen: they strike each other barbarously from mere wantonness, but they are civil enough to me.
Mohamad bin Saleh proposes to go to Ujiji next month.

He waited when he heard of our coming, in order that we might go together: he has a very low opinion of the present chief.

The area which has served for building the chief town at different times is about ten miles in diameter.
Mofwe is a shallow piece of water about two miles broad, four or less long, full of sedgy islands, the abodes of waterfowl, but some are solid enough to be cultivated.