Two nice girls were trying to sell their venture, which was roasted white ants, called "Gumbe." _30th May, 1871._--The river fell four inches during the last four days; the colour is very dark brown, and large quantities of aquatic plants and trees float down.

Mologhwe, or chief Ndambo, came and mixed blood with the intensely bigoted Moslem, Hassani: this is to secure the nine canoes.

He next went over to have more palaver about them, and they do not hesitate to play me false by detraction.

The Manyuema, too, are untruthful, but very honest; we never lose an article by them: fowls and goats are untouched, and if a fowl is lost, we know that it has been stolen by an Arab slave.

When with Mohamad Bogharib, we had all to keep our fowls at the Manyuema villages to prevent them being stolen by our own slaves, and it is so here.