of ivory, purchased in this new field very cheaply, because no traders had ever gone into the country beyond Bambarre, or Moenekuss's district before.
We were now in the large bend of the Lualaba, which is here much larger than at Mpweto's, near Moero Lake.

River Kesingwe.
_16th September, 1869._--To Kasangangazi's.

We now came to the first palm-oil trees (_Elais Guineensis_) in our way since we left Tanganyika.
They had evidently been planted at villages.

Light-grey parrots, with red tails, also became common, whose name, Kuss or Koos, gives the chief his name, Moenekuss ("Lord of the Parrot"); but the Manyuema pronunciation is Monanjoose.

Much reedy grass, fully half an inch in diameter in the stalk on our route, and over the top of the range Moloni, which we ascended: the valleys are impassable.
_17th September, 1869._--Remain to buy food at Kasanga's, and rest the carriers.