Manyuema say, "Soko is a man, and nothing bad in him." They live in communities of about ten, each having his own female; an intruder from another camp is beaten off with their fists and loud yells.

If one tries to seize the female of another, he is caught on the ground, and all unite in boxing and biting the offender.

A male often carries a child, especially if they are passing from one patch of forest to another over a grassy space; he then gives it to the mother.
I now spoke with my friend Mohamad, and he offered to go with me to see Lualaba from Luamo, but I explained that merely to see and measure its depth would not do, I must see whither it went.

This would require a number of his people in lieu of my deserters, and to take them away from his ivory trade, which at present is like gold digging, I must make amends, and I offered him 2000 rupees, and a gun worth 700 rupees, R.
2700 in all, or 270_l._ He agreed, and should he enable me to finish up my work in one trip down Lualaba, and round to Lualaba West, it would be a great favour.
[How severely he felt the effects of the terrible illnesses of the last two years may be imagined by some few words here, and it must ever be regretted that the conviction which he speaks of was not acted up to.] The severe pneumonia in Marunga, the choleraic complaint in Manyuema, and now irritable ulcers warn me to retire while life lasts.

Mohamad's people went north, and east, and west, from Kasonga's: sixteen marches north, ten ditto west, and four ditto E.and S.E.The average march was 6-1/2 hours, say 12' about 200' N.and W., lat.