366 ACROSS AFEICA. [Chap. 



August, Kisenga, situated just between the sources of the Lulua and 



i^*^^- Lianibai, or Zambesi, was arrived at the next day, and, being the 



last station in Ulunda, we remained here a few days to procure 



corn and make flour for a reported march of five days between 



this and Lovale. 



The moon served well for taking lunars, and in three nights 

 I managed to get a hundred and eighty -seven distances, and 

 thus fixed this important position accurately. 



Here we met a small party of Lovale people looking for ivo- 

 ry and bees-wax. They were armed with guns, and, as was al- 

 ways the case with those possessing them, were far more curi- 

 ous with regard to mine than people who had never before 

 seen any fire-arms. My heavy rifle was examined with much 

 admiration, but they did not consider it sufiieiently long, their 

 own weapons being lengthy Portuguese flint-locks ; but when 

 one of them consented to shoot at a tree distant about fifty 

 yards, I followed with shell, putting the one from the second 

 barrel into the hole made by that from the first. They were 

 then quite satisfied as to the power and accuracy of my fire- 

 arms. 



After leaving Kisenga, three days' marching through alter- 

 nate jungle and large plains brought us to the village of Sona 

 Bazh, lately built by some Lovale people. On the road we saw 

 many tracks of large game and also a herd of zebra. The pret- 

 ty beasts were playing and feeding, wholly unconscious of our 

 being so near, and I took a long look at them through my field- 

 glasses. 



From Sona Bazh could be seen the heavy timber fringing the 

 banks of the Zambesi, about ten or twelve miles south of us, the 

 river at this point running west-south-west. We were now on 

 the water-shed between that river and the Kassab6, constantly 

 crossing streams running either toward one or toward the other 

 river. 



The road first led into a dip tlirough wliich the river Luvua 

 ;lrained to the Zambesi. In my tent the minimum thermome- 

 ter had stood at 38° Fahrenheit ; but on descending into the dip, 

 the ground was frozen and the pools covered with ice. 



To me it was quite delightful to feel the crisp ground crunch- 

 ing under my feet ; but possibly my unshod and half-naked f ol- 



