INCIPIENT MUTINY. 



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keeps the opposite eye directed, to the forbidden spot and 

 goes in spite of you. The only way he can be brought to 

 a stand is by a stroke with a wand across the nose. When 

 Sinbad ran in below a climber stretched over the path so 

 low tbat I could not stoop under it, I was dragged off and 

 came down on the crown of my head; and he never 

 allowed an opportunity of the kind to pass without trying 

 to inflict a kick, as if I neither had nor deserved his love. 



On leaving the Chihune, we crossed the Longe, and, as 

 the day was cloudy, our guides wandered in a forest away 

 to the west till we came to the river Chihombo, flowing to 

 the E.X.B. My men depended so much on the sun for 

 guidance, that, having seen nothing of the luminary all 

 day, they thought we had wandered back to the Chiboque; 

 and, as often happens when bewildered, they disputed as 

 to the point where the sun should rise next morning. As 

 soon as the rains would allow next day, we went off to the 

 N.E. It would have been better to have travelled by com- 

 pass alone ; for the guides took advantage of any fears ex- 

 pressed by my people, and threatened to return if presents 

 were not made at once. But my men had never left their 

 own country before except for rapine and murder. When 

 they formerly came to a village, they were in the habit of 

 killing numbers of the inhabitants and then taking a few 

 young men to serve as guides to the next place. As this 

 was their first attempt at an opposite line of conduct, and 

 as they were without their shields, they felt defenceless 

 among the greedy Chiboque, and some allowance must be 

 made for them on that account. 



Saturday, 11th. — Eeached a small village on the banks 

 of a narrow stream. I was too ill to go out of my little 

 covering except tc quell a mutiny which began to show 

 itself among some of the Batoka and Ambonda of our 

 pnrty. They grumbled, as they often do against their 

 chiefs when they think them partial in their gifts, because 

 they supposed that I had shown a preference in the distri- 

 bution of the beads; but the beads I had given to my prin- 



