The country is full of pahn-oil palms, and very beautiful.

Our people are all afraid to go out of sight of the camp for necessary purposes, lest the Manyuema should kill them.

Here was the barrier to traders going north, for the very people among whom we now are, murdered anyone carrying a tusk, till last year, when Moene-mokaia, or Katomba, got into friendship with Moenekuss, who protected his people, and always behaved in a generous sensible manner.

Dilongo, now a chief here, came to visit us: his elder brother died, and he was elected; he does not wash in consequence, and is very dirty.
Two buffaloes were killed yesterday.

The people have their bodies tattooed with new and full moons, stars, crocodiles, and Egyptian gardens.
_19th September, 1869._--We crossed several rivulets three yards to twelve yards, and calf deep.