This season he plants along the rivulet called "Bonde," and on the damp soil.
The rain-water does not percolate far, for the clay retains it about two feet beneath the surface: this is a cause of unhealthiness to man.

Fowls and goats have been cut off this year in large numbers by an epidemic.
The visits of the Ujijian traders must be felt by the Manyuema to be a severe infliction, for the huts are appropriated, and no leave asked: firewood, pots, baskets, and food are used without scruple, and anything that pleases is taken away; usually the women flee into the forest, and return to find the whole place a litter of broken food.

I tried to pay the owners of the huts in which I slept, but often in vain, for they hid in the forest, and feared to come near.

It was common for old men to come forward to me with a present of bananas as I passed, uttering with trembling accents, "Bolongo, Bolongo!" ("Friendship, Friendship!"), and if I stopped to make a little return present, others ran for plantains or palm-toddy.

The Arabs' men ate up what they demanded, without one word of thanks, and turned round to me and said, "They are bad, don't give them anything." "Why, what badness is there in giving food ?" I replied.