100 BAINES ON THE ZAMBESI EXPEDITION. [Jan. 10, 1859. 



Mr. Baines's journal extends from June 25 to September 17, 1858, 

 and the following is a shoii: abstract of its contents : — June 25. The 

 last of the luggage was taken from the Pearly put into the launch, 

 and the iron house on Expedition Island, lat. 18° 24', was partly 

 set up. The launch was overhauled and examined, deck-house 

 caulked, &c. — Jitm 30. Dr. Livingstone left in the launch for Tete 

 or Senna, and the parties left behind were Dr. Kirk, Mr. Living- 

 stone, three Kroomen, and a dog (besides Mr. Baines). 



July 3. Troubles with the rain ; the house leaks. The wind has 

 been usually south-south-east, and strong. — July 4. Kiver falls 

 about li inch per diem, and is 8 feet below its highest level. — 

 July 5. Two canoes passed the island, going seaward, carrying rice 

 and Kaffir corn, a native, speaking Portuguese, with a gun, bows 

 4 feet long, reed arrows, iron-headed and stout spears. — July 6. 

 Another canoe with five or six natives, bringing plantains, eggs, and 

 firewood for sale. Cloth is the medium of exchange ; a tedious 

 bargaining is necessary. — July 7. Photography begun. Sudden 

 sickness of Messrs. Baines and Livingstone ; the two canoes returned, 

 and some alligator flesh was bought from them. The alligators 

 are shy, so are the hippopotami. — July 19. Launch returned ; Dr. L. 

 had to stop five miles short of Senna, owing to the shallowness of 

 the river, where the stores were landed. The authorities were dis- 

 posed to be friendly. Mr. Baines is to accompany the launch up in 

 her next trip. — July 20. Completed the reloading of the launch, 

 1600 lbs. of beads, &c., and set off in her. The river was broad, but 

 the channel narrow, tortuous, and shooting from side to side. The 

 more exposed parts of the banks of the islands are cut away by the 

 stream at the rate of several feet per diem. Several alligators and 

 hippopotami were fired at ; none killed. Dr. Livingstone mentions 

 that he had never seen an hippopotamus on land till within the last 

 few days. — July 21. Eiver broad and shallow; sounded with the 

 whale-boat ahead, and got safely through the shallows; further 

 difficulties. — July 22. Thick fog in the morning ; reached the mouth 

 of the Mutu, the river formerly laid down on the maps as the main 

 branch of the Zambesi. It was a gully 10 feet wide and 4 feet 

 deep, and its bottom was actually 9 or 10 feet above the surface of 

 the water in the Zambesi. An old capsized canoe lay high and dry 

 in it, where it must wait till next rainy season. The village of 

 Mazaro is close by. The head-quarters of the Portuguese army are 

 here now ; two mutilated corpses were passed, and there was an 

 attack from some rebel Landeens while the launch was there. The 

 Portuguese Governor was sick, and given a passage in the launch 

 to Cipanga, which was reached in the afternoon. Some large 



