When we had the people here, Kassessa gave ten goats and one tusk to hire them to avenge a feud in which his elder brother was killed, and they went; the spoils secured were 31 captives, 60 goats, and about 40 Manyuema killed: one slave of the attacking party was killed, and two badly wounded.

Thani's man, Yahood, who was leader in the other case of 40 killed, boasted before me of the deed.

I said, "You were sent here not to murder, but to trade;" he replied, "We are sent to murder." Bin Nassur said, "The English are always killing people;" I replied, "Yes, but only slavers who do the deeds that were done yesterday." Various other tribes sent large presents to the Arabs to avert assaults, and tusks too were offered.
The rains had continued into June, and fifty-eight inches fell.
_26th June, 1870._--Now my people failed me; so, with only three attendants, Susi, Chuma, and Gardner, I started off to the north-west for the Lualaba.

The numbers of running rivulets to be crossed were surprising, and at each, for some forty yards, the path had been worked by the feet of passengers into adhesive mud: we crossed fourteen in one day--some thigh deep; most of them run into the Liya, which we crossed, and it flows to the Lualaba.

We passed through many villages, for the paths all lead through human dwellings.