They don't seem to have felt it worth while to come here, as neither ivory nor gold could be obtained if they did.

The country is too full of people to allow any wild animals elbow-room: even the smaller animals are hunted down by means of nets and dogs.
We rested at Pachoma; the headman offering a goat and beer, but I declined, and went on to Molomba.

Here Kauma's carriers turned because a woman had died that morning as we left the village.

They asserted that had she died before we started not a man would have left: this shows a reverence for death, for the woman was no relative of any of them.

The headman of Molomba was very poor but very liberal, cooking for us and presenting a goat: another headman from a neighbouring village, a laughing, good-natured old man, named Chikala, brought beer and a fowl in the morning.