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CHAPTER II. 



Intercourse with Natives — Trap for Fish — Good Feehng of the Natives 

 to the English — Confluence of the Ruo River — Bishop Mackenzie's 

 Grave — In the Elephant Country — Visit of Mankokwe — ^The Mako- 

 lolo and the Manganja — Chibisa — Graves of Dr. Dickinson and 

 Mr. Scudamore — The Mother of Chinwallah — Bargain with Moloka 

 and the Makololo — Matiti — ^Mr. Thornton's Grave — The Lower 

 Cataracts — Order of our March — Buffalo Hunt — Buckley's Fall into 

 an Elephant Pit — Hippopotami enjoying themselves — On the track 

 of Natives — Pamafunda. 



ON the eleventh we got out of the marshes, and 

 the river broadened. I was delighted to leave 

 those horrid monotonous swamps, where one sees no- 

 thing but the high reeds and rushes on either side, and 

 the sky above. We now opened a mountain range to 

 the west, and on turning a point in the river, I saw a 

 large crowd of natives some distance ahead on the 

 western bank. They seemed uneasy about our sud- 

 den appearance, and some crossed the river in their 

 canoes, to discover who we were. As soon as we 

 got near enough we hailed them, and informed them 

 that we were English, and wanted to buy provisions, 

 not slaves. They seemed much frightened, and many 



