The Wanyamwesi here support themselves by shooting buffaloes, at a place two days distant, and selling the meat for grain and cassava: no sooner is it known that an animal is killed, than the village women crowd in here, carrying their produce to exchange it for meat, which they prefer to beads or anything else.
Their farinaceous food creates a great craving for flesh: were my shoes not done I would go in for buffaloes too.
A man from the upper part of Tanganyika gives the same account of the river from Rusisi that Burton and Speke received when they went to its mouth.

He says that the water of the Lake goes up some distance, but is met by Rusisi water, and driven back thereby.

The Lake water, he adds, finds an exit northwards and eastwards by several small rivers which would admit small canoes only.

They pour into Lake Chowambe--probably that discovered by Mr.Baker.This Chowambe is in Hundi, the country of cannibals, but the most enlightened informants leave the impression on the mind of groping in the dark: it may be all different when we come to see it.
The fruit of the palm, which yields palm-oil, is first of all boiled, then pounded in a mortar, then put into hot or boiling water, and the oil skimmed off.

The palm-oil is said to be very abundant at Ujiji, as much as 300 gallons being often brought into the bazaar for sale in one morning; the people buy it eagerly for cooking purposes.