With one hundred carriers he requires to make four relays, or otherwise make the journey four times over at every stage.

Twenty-one of his slaves ran away in one night, and only four were caught again: they were not all bought, nor was the copper and ivory come at by fair means; the murder of his brother was a good excuse for plunder, murder, and capture.

Mpweto is suspected of harbouring them as living on the banks of the Lualaba, for they could not get over without assistance from his canoes and people.

Mpweto said, "Remove from me, and we shall see if they come this way." They are not willing to deliver fugitives up.

Syde senL for Elmas, the only thing of the Mullam or clerical order here, probably to ask if the Koran authorizes him to attack Mpweto.