It is observable that the permanent halt to which the Manyuema have come is not affected by the appearance of superior men among them: they are stationary, and improvement is unknown.

Moenekuss paid smiths to teach his sons, and they learned to work in copper and iron, but he never could get them to imitate his own generous and obliging deportment to others; he had to reprove them perpetually for mean shortsightedness, and when he died he virtually left no successor, for his sons are both narrowminded, mean, shortsighted creatures, without dignity or honour.

All they can say of their forefathers is that they came from Lualaba up Luamo, then to Luelo, and thence here.

The name seems to mean "forest people"-- _Manyuema_.
The party under Hassani crossed the Logumba at Kanyingere's, and went N.and N.N.E.They found the country becoming more and more mountainous, till at last, approaching Morere, it was perpetually up and down.

They slept at a village on the top, and could send for water to the bottom only once, it took so much time to descend and ascend.