The head slave came and begged for the musket of the delinquent ferryman, which was returned.

He thought his master did perfectly right to kill Mpangwe, when asked to do it for the fee of ten tusks, and he even justified it thus: "If a man invites you to eat, will you not partake ?" We continued our journey on the 28th of June.

Game was extremely abundant, and there were many lions.

Mbia drove one off from his feast on a wild pig, and appropriated what remained of the pork to his own use.
Lions are particularly fond of the flesh of wild pigs and zebras, and contrive to kill a large number of these animals.

In the afternoon we arrived at the village of the female chief, Ma-mburuma, but she herself was now living on the opposite side of the river.