[The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 by David Livingstone]@TWC D-Link book
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873

CHAPTER VII
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I shall forward, and one stick of tobacco.
_21st April, 1872._--Tarred the tent presented by Mr.Stanley.
_23rd April, 1872._--Visited Kwikuru, and saw the chief of all the Banyamwezi (around whose Boma it is), about sixty years old, and partially paralytic.

He told me that he had gone as far as Katanga by the same Fipa route I now propose to take, when a little boy following his father, who was a great trader.
The name Banyamwezi arose from an ivory ornament of the shape of the new moon hung to the neck, with a horn reaching round over either shoulder.
They believe that they came from the sea-coast, Mombas ( ?) of old, and when people inquired for them they said, "We mean the men of the moon ornament." It is very popular even now, and a large amount of ivory is cut down in its manufacture; some are made of the curved tusks of hippopotami.

The Banyamwezi have turned out good porters, and they do most of the carrying work of the trade to and from the East Coast; they are strong and trustworthy.

One I saw carried six frasilahs, or 200 lbs., of ivory from Unyanyembe to the sea-coast.
The prefix "_Nya_" in Nyamwezi seems to mean place or locality, as Mya does on the Zambesi.

If the name referred to the "moon ornament," as the people believe, the name would be Ba or Wamwezi, but Banyamwezi means probably the Ba--they or people--Nya, place--Mwezi, moon, people of the moon locality or moon-land.
_Unyanyembe_, place of hoes.
Unyambewa.
Unyangoma, place of drums.
Nyangurue, place of pigs.
Nyangkondo.
Nyarukwe.
It must be a sore affliction to be bereft of one's reason, and the more so if the insanity takes the form of uttering thoughts which in a sound state we drive from us as impure.
_25th and 26th April, 1872._--A touch of fever from exposure.
_27th April, 1872._--Better, and thankful.


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