Sweet potatoes. Yams. Maize. Sesamum. Millet. Beans. Cucumbers. Melons. Cassava. Ground-nuts. Bananas. Sugar-cane. Pepper (in berries). Vegetables for broths. Wild fruit. Palm-butter. Oil-palm nuts. Pine-apples. Honey. Eggs. Fowls. Black pigs. Goats. Sheep. Parrots. Palm-wine (Malofu). Pombé (beer). Mussels and oysters from the river. Fresh fish. Dried fish. Whitebait. Snails (dried). Salt. White ants. Grasshoppers. Tobacco (dried leaf). Pipes. Fishing-nets. Basket-work. Cassava bread. Cassava flour. Copper bracelets. Iron wire. Iron knobs. Hoes. Spears. Bows and arrows. Hatchets. Rattan-cane staves. Stools. Crockery. Powdered camwood. Grass cloths. Grass mats. Fuel. Ivory. Slaves. ----- Footnote 7: Made from the fibre of the _Raphia vinifera_ palm. ----- From this it will be perceived that the wants of Nyangwé are very tolerably supplied. And how like any other marketplace it was! with its noise and murmur of human voices. The same rivalry in extolling their wares, the eager quick action, the emphatic gesture, the inquisitive look, the facial expressions of scorn and triumph, anxiety, joy, plausibility, were all there. I discovered, too, the surprising fact that the aborigines of Manyema possess just the same inordinate ideas in respect to their wares as London, Paris, and New York shopkeepers. Perhaps the Manyema people are not so voluble, but they compensate for lack of language by gesture and action, which are unspeakably eloquent. During this month of the year the Lualaba reached its lowest level. Our boat, the _Lady Alice_, after almost being re-built, was launched in the river, and with sounding-line and sextant on board, my crew and I, eager to test the boat on the grey-brown waters of the Great River, pushed off at 11 A.M. and rowed for an island opposite, 800 yards distant, taking soundings as we went. The following are the figures, noted down after each trial with the lead, beginning thirty yards from shore, and ending at the low brush- covered island opposite Nyangwé:— 18 23 24 15 19 24 24½ 15 18 25 22 15½ 18½ 24½ 23 14 20 25 22 13 20½ 26 21 12 19 27 19 9 21 27½ 17 9½ 16 8 —-the total of which gives a mean of 18 feet 9 inches.