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fisliing, or repairing their nets, or making new ones. 

 The fish, though bony, are very good, and quite a 

 treat. Here we soon opened an extensive market, 

 and after a " feeler," provisions were brought in 

 abundance. 



During the two days we remained here the women 

 came down in force two or three times to visit us, 

 and did not exhibit the least fear. Most of them 

 wore the Manganja lip-ring, and there were many 

 very good-looking girls amongst them. 



The first evening a large hippopotamus came to 

 visit us, lying off the shore about two hundred yards. 

 He had evidently fixed on the mouth of a small 

 stream that runs into the lake here, dividing the vil- 

 lage of Pamquala in the same way as the river 

 already described at Pemanyinnee, as his place of 

 landing when darkness should have set in. I had 

 arranged to sit up and lie in wait for him, and as the 

 moon would be favourable, I had every hope of suc- 

 cess. However, just at dusk several canoes came out 

 of the river, and commenced preparing for a haul for 

 fish \ and the river-horse, seeing he was likely to be 

 disturbed, moved away to seek some more secluded 

 spot. 



We had a few mosquitoes here at night. The day 

 before we left a man came from an adjacent village 

 with a knife, marked "Warranted to strike fire," 

 which he said had been given him by a white man 

 about a year ago. This man, who told us that he 

 had heard we were making inquiries about '^ our 

 brother," and had in consequence come to tell us that 

 he had seen him, gave just the same description of 



