so much ivory that we had not enough men to
carry it, but they were very curious to know
what we wanted with it. Did we eat it? ‘No.’
‘What then?’ ‘We sell it to other men who
make charms of it.’ ‘Oh! What will you give
us if we show the ivory to you?’ ‘We will give
you cowries and beads.’ ‘Good, come along.’
“We travelled six days, and then we came
to the border village of their country. They
would not allow us to penetrate farther until
they had seen their king and obtained his consent.
In the meantime they said we might trade
round about. We did trade. We purchased in
two days more ivory than the other countries
could have supplied us with in two weeks.
“ On the third day the litde people came back
and told us we might go and live in the king’s
village. It was a mere long street, you know,
with houses, extending a long distance on either
side. They gave us a portion of the village to
live in. The king was kind, at least he appeared
so the first day; the next day he was not
so kind, but he sold us ivory in plenty. There
was no lack of that. The dwarfs came from all
parts. Oh! it is a big country!, and everybody
brought ivory, until we had about four hundred
tusks, big and little, as much as we could carry.
We had bought it with copper, beads, and cowries.
No cloths, for the dwarfs were all naked,
king and all.
“ They told us that eleven days’ journey southwest
was another country, where there was even
more ivory than they had, and four days beyond
that again was a great lake, where there
were ships. The lake was near the country of
a king ivhom they called Ngombe.
“We did not starve in the dwarf-land the
first ten days. Bananas as long as my arm, and
plantains as long as the dwarfs were tall. One
plantain was sufficient for a man for one day.
“We thought, seeing that we had obtained
as much ivory as we were able to carry, that
we had better return. We told the king that
we wanted to depart. To our surprise, the king
—-he was no longer than my leg— said that
we should not be allowed to go. ‘Why?’ we
asked. ‘Because this is my country, and .you
are not to go away until I say.’ ‘But we have
finished our business, and we have had trade
sufficient; we don’t wish to buy any more.’ ‘You
must buy all I have got; I want more cowries ’ ;
and he ground his teeth, and he looked just
like a wild monkey.
“Mtagamoyo laughed at him, for he was very
funny, and then told him that we would have
to go away, because we had many friends waiting
for us. He said, ‘ You shall not go from my
country.’
“We held another shauri, when it was agreed
that if we stayed longer we might get into