I saw a man with two great great toes: the double toe is usually a little one.
_11th November, 1869._--We had heard that the Manyuema were eager to buy slaves, but that meant females only to make wives of them: they prefer goats to men.

Mohamad had bought slaves in Lunda in order to get ivory from these Manyuema, but inquiry here and elsewhere brought it out plainly that they would rather let the ivory lie unused or rot than invest in male slaves, who are generally criminals--at least in Lunda.

I advised my friend to desist from buying slaves who would all "eat off their own heads," but he knew better than to buy copper, and on our return he acknowledged that I was right.
_15th November, 1869._--We came into a country where Dugumbe's slaves had maltreated the people greatly, and they looked on us as of the same tribe, and we had much trouble in consequence.

The country is swarming with villages.

Hassani of Dugumbe got the chief into debt, and then robbed him of ten men and ten goats to clear off the debt: The Dutch did the same in the south of Africa.
_17th November, 1869._--Copious rains brought us to a halt at Muana Balange's, on the banks of the Luamo River.