A great deal of copper-wire is here made, the wire-drawers using for one part of the process a seven-inch cable.

They make very fine wire, and it is used chiefly as leglets and anklets; the chief's wives being laden with them, and obliged to walk in a stately style from the weight: the copper comes from Katanga.
_26th February, 1867._--The chief wishes to buy a cloth with two goats, but his men do not bring them up quickly.

Simon, one of the boys, is ill of fever, and this induces me to remain, though moving from one place to another is the only remedy we have in our power.
With the chief's men we did not get on well, but with himself all was easy.

His men demanded prepayment for canoes to cross the river Looembe; but in the way that he put it, the request was not unreasonable, as he gave a man to smooth our way, and get canoes, or whatever else was needed, all the way to Chibue's.

I gave a cloth when he put it thus, and he presented a goat, a spear ornamented with copper-wire, abundance of meal, and beer, and numbo; so we parted good friends, as his presents were worth the cloth.
Holding a north-westerly course we met with the Chikosho flowing west, and thence came to the Likombe by a high ridge called Losauswa, which runs a long way westward.