When he had people who killed elephants he was too stingy to share the profits of the sale of the ivory with his subordinates.

The elephant hunters have either left him or neglect hunting, so he has now no tusks to sell to the Arab traders who come from Tanganyika.

Major Monteiro, the third Portuguese who visited Casembe, appears to have been badly treated by this man's predecessor, and no other of his nation has ventured so far since.

They do not lose much by remaining away, for a little ivory and slaves are all that Casembe ever can have to sell.

About a month to the west of this the people of Katanga smelt copper-ore (malachite) into large bars shaped like the capital letter I.They may be met with of from 50 lbs.