A Thousand Miles in a Machilla 



name which is not known locally. Villages are 

 called after their chiefs ; a change of chief means 

 change of name for the village, and this is very- 

 misleading. 



After our previous day's hard work we had only 

 intended making a short march of four or five miles 

 across the Lulimala to the place marked Chitambo 

 on the map, where Livingstone, whose monument 

 we wished to see, died in 1878. 



Following the right bank for a couple of 

 miles, the path descended across the dry river 

 bed, and traversed a plain covered with disused 

 ant-hills of every shape and size, often, indeed, 

 grotesque in their proportions. On reaching the 

 forest by which the plain was bounded we called for 

 breakfast. Our porters were close behind us, and 

 as we were told that there was no water in our 

 neighbourhood they were sent on to the village, 

 which w^as supposed to be close by. We our- 

 selves followed so soon as breakfast was over ; un- 

 fortunately the distance proved much greater than 

 we had expected — two hours' march at the least ; and 

 on arrival we found that the name of the village 

 was Mpundu — probably the Chimpundu marked on 

 the map — not Chitambo, as we had expected, this 

 name being seemingly unknown. 



The day proved intensely hot, the hottest we 

 experienced during this portion of our journey, so 

 that in the afternoon we did not feel equal to the 

 long return march into the river valley, and con- 

 sequently did not see Livingstone's monument, 

 which is, I believe, a tablet on a tree, recording 

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