CHAPTER V 



IN THE LION COUNTRY 



A Voyage in a Canoe — Departure for the Tendos — What is a Tendo ? 

 Chitengo and his Son — Installation of a Camp on the Sungw6 — 

 Laying Bait for Lions — The Pala — The Tsessebe — My First Lion 

 from the Sungwe — A Double Shot — Five Lions — Another Splendid 

 Day — A Lion as an Unwelcome Guest — An Old Lion — The Tsetse — 

 Two Timid Lions — Sojourn at Sabonga — Removal to Chingole — 

 My Wife Stopped by a Lioness — Return to the SungwS — Departure 

 for M'Kulumazi — A Leopard that Climbed like a Cat — Sojourn at 

 Gilly — Death of an old Buffalo and an Eland 



Taking advantage of the Pungwe being high, I set 

 out for Guengere in a native canoe, hollowed out of 

 a tree-trunk, two negroes helping to row it ; and my 

 native servant, Vinho, accompanying me. Besides 

 these four persons, the canoe contained some packages. 

 I intended to go down the river as far as Urema, follow- 

 ing its course and collecting aquatic birds. On the 

 first day we reached Chikari, where I passed a wretched 

 night on account of the swarms of mosquitoes. At 

 dawn I hastened to leave this disagreeable spot. On 

 our way we saw a great many birds, and in a short time 

 I managed to kill nine small egrets, two black geese 

 in full flight, two herons, and seven whistling teal, 

 which the Kafirs call saolili, a name exactly imitating 

 their whistling. I stopped to breakfast at the village 

 of Chitengo. The negroes of this village tell me that 

 in a vast plain, some hours' march distant, game and 



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