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tlie MungnsI, wliicli it joins about midway between that 

 place and Giiju, and about thirty miles N.W. of Villa 

 Pereira. At this place I found larf^e game fairly plentiful, 

 especially elephants, the forest open and the grass short and 

 not so troublesome as in the marshy region. Matiwe is 

 about eight miles W.S.AV. of Ngamwe, a few miles from the 

 Lualua River, the boundary of Boror territory, and the 

 nature of the forest in the vicinity is much like that at 

 Ngamwe. Guju is about six miles S.B. of Ngamwe, on the 

 Mungusi River and the path leading to Villa Pereira. 

 Namagoa is situated on the road between Villa Pereira and 

 Nhamacurra, about nine miles from the former. Buruma is 

 about fourteen miles N. of Namagoa, in open and more or 

 less dry forest. Muandama is six miles to the E.N.E. of 

 Buruma, and here the first view over the forest to the S. was 

 obtained, as it is situated on higher ground which slopes 

 away towards Nhamacurra. Large game, except elephants 

 and rhinoceros, was here more easily obtained than to the S., 

 as the grass was shorter. Namabieda is about ten or twelve 

 miles to the N.E. of Muandama, and a few miles south of 

 Parakomi Mountains. These mountains are table-like, and 

 rise some five hundred feet sheer above the surrounding 

 forest, forming the first of a series of similar mountains 

 connecting up to the N.W. with Chiperone. Around the 

 base of these are numerous mound-like kopjes devoid of 

 vegetation and intersected by strips of forest, the haunts of in- 

 numerable baboons, rock-rabbits, rock-hares, klipspringer (?), 

 reed-buck, bush-buck, duikers, eland, Lichtenstein hartebeest, 

 sable antelope, water-buck, rhinoceros, and the rarer John- 

 ston's wildebeest and zebra ; besides these, leopards, jackals, 

 and hysenas were numerous, but, strange to say, lions are said 

 never to frequent the neighbourhood, and natives travel fear- 

 lessly at night, which they would never venture to do a few 

 miles to the south. A man-eater, however, visited Marun- 

 ganya when I was at Namabieda and took the head-man of 

 a village, but it had left the neighbourhood when I went 

 there to shoot it a few days later. The whole aspect of the 

 forest was undergoing a change during my stay at Namabieda 



