148 HIPPOPOTAMI. 



the more hungry the party became, the more frequently 1 

 missed the animals. 



Before we came to the junction of the Leeba and 

 Leeambye we found the banks twenty feet high, and com- 

 posed of marly sandstone. They are covered with trees, 

 and the left bank has the tsetse and elephants. I suspect 

 the fly has some connection with this animal, and the 

 Portuguese in the district of Tete must think so too, for 

 they call it the Musca da elephant, (the elephant-fly.) 



We passed great numbers of hippopotami. They are 

 very numerous in the parts of the river where they are 

 never hunted. The males appear of a dark color, the 

 females of yellowish brown. There is not such a complete 

 separation of the sexes among them as among elephants 

 The}' spend most of their time in the water, lolling about 

 in a listless, dreamy manner. When they come out of the 

 river by night, they crop off the soft succulent grasses 

 very neatly. When they blow, they puff up the water 

 about three feet hig-h. 



CHAPTEE XV. 



DR. LIVINGSTONE VISITS THE FEMALE CHIEFS MANENKO AND 

 NYAMOANA. 



On the 27th of December we were at the confluence of the 

 Leeba and Leeambye, (lat. 14° 10' 52" S., long. 23° 35' 4u" 

 E.) JVlasiko, the Barotse chief, for whom we had some 

 captives, lived nearly due east of this point. They were 

 two little boys, a little girl, a young man, and two middle- 

 aged women. One of these was a member of a Babimpe 

 tribe, who knock out both upper and lower front teeth as 

 a distinction. As we had been informed by the captives 

 on the previous Sunday that Masiko was in the habit of 

 seizing all orphans, and those who have no powerful friend 



