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on, another form of salutation, of Christian (?) origin, " Ave- 

 rie," (Ave Marie.) The salutations probably travel farther 

 than the faith. My people, when satisfied with a meal like 

 that which they enjoy so often at home, amused themselves 

 by an uproarious dance. Katema sent to ask what I had 

 gi ven them to produce so much excitement. Intemese replied 

 it was their custom, and they meant no harm. The com- 

 panion of the ox we slaughtered refused food for two days, 

 and went lowing about for him continually. He seemed 

 inconsolable for his loss, and tried again and again to 

 escape back to the Makololo country. My men remarked, 

 '< He thinks, They will kill me as well as my friend." Katema 

 thought it the result of art, and had fears of ray skill in 

 medicine, and, of course, witchcraft. He refused to see the 

 magic lantern. 



On Sunday, the 19th, both I and several of our party 

 were seized with fever, and I could do nothing but toss 

 about in my little tent, with the thermometer about 90°, — 

 though this was the beginning of winter, and my men 

 made as much shade as possible by planting branches of 

 trees all round and over it. We have, for the first time in 

 my experience in Africa, had a cold wind from the north. 

 All the winds from that quarter are hot, and those from 

 the south are cold; but they seldom blow from eithei 

 direction. 



20th. — We were glad to get away, though not on account 

 of any scarcity of food; for my men, by giving small 

 presents of meat as an earnest of their sincerity, formed 

 many friendships with the people of Katema. We went 

 about four or five miles in a N.N.W. direction, then two in 

 a westerly one, and came round the small end of Lake 

 Dilolo. It seemed, as far as we could at this time discern, 

 co be like a river a quarter of a mile wide. 



Immediately beyond Dilolo there is a large flat abou 

 twenty miles in breadth. Here Shakatwala insisted on our 

 remaining to get supplies of food from Katema's subjects 



before entering the uninhabited watery plains. 



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