The Manyuema country, for which he set out on the 12th of July, 1869, was hitherto unknown.

As we follow him we shall see that in almost every respect both the face of the country and the people differ from other regions lying nearer to the East Coast.

It appears that the Arabs had an inkling of the vast quantities of ivory which might be procured there, and Livingstone went into the new field with the foremost of those hordes of Ujijian traders who, in all probability, will eventually destroy tribe after tribe by slave-trading and pillage, as they have done in so many other regions.] Off at 6 A.M., and passed the mouth of the Luishe, in Kibwe Bay; 3-1/2 hours took us to Rombola or Lombola, where all the building wood of Ujiji is cut.
_12th July, 1869._--Left at 1.30 A.M., and pulled 7-1/2 hours to the left bank of the Malagarasi River.

We cannot go by day, because about 11 A.M.a south-west wind commences to blow, which the heavy canoes cannot face; it often begins earlier or later, according to the phases of the moon.

An east wind blows from sunrise till 10 or 11 A.M., and the south-west begins.