I am thankful to feel myself well.
Only one ulcer is open, the size of a split pea: malachite was the remedy most useful, but the beginning of the rains may have helped the cure, as it does to others; copper rubbed down is used when malachite cannot be had.

We expect Syde bin Habib soon: he will take to the river, and I hope so shall I.The native traders reached people who had horns of oxen, got from the left bank of the Lualaba.

Katomba's people got most ivory, namely, fifty tusks; the others only four.

The Metamba or forest is of immense extent, and there is room for much ivory to be picked up at five or seven bracelets of copper per tusk, if the slaves sent will only be merciful.

The nine villages destroyed, and 100 men killed, by Katomba's slaves at Nasangwa's, were all about a string of beads fastened to a powder horn, which a Manyuema man tried in vain to steal! Katomba gets twenty-five of the fifty tusks brought by his people.