298 CABANGO. 



CHAPTEK XXIII. 



DR. LIVINGSTONE VISITS THE COUNTRY OF THE BALONDA. 



We made a little detour to the southward, in order to 

 get provisions in a cheaper market. This led us along the 

 rivulet called Tamba, where we found the people, who had 

 not been visited so frequently by the slave-traders as the 

 rest, rather timid and very civil. 



We reached the river Moamba (lat. 9° 38' S., long. 20° 

 13' 34" E.) on the 7th May. This is a stream of thirty 

 yards wide, and, like the Quilo, Loange, Chikapa, and 

 Eoajima, contains both alligators and hippopotami. We 

 crossed it by means of canoes. 



We crossed two small streams, the Kanesi and Fombeji, 

 before reaching Cabango, a village situated on the banks 

 of the Chihombo. The country was becoming more 

 densely peopled as we proceeded, but it bears no popula- 

 tion compared to what it might easily sustain. 



Cabango (lat. 9° 31' S., long. 20° 31' or 32' E.) is the 

 dwelling-place of Muanzanza, one of Matiamvo's subor- 

 dinate chiefs. His village consists of about two hundred 

 huts and ten or twelve square houses, constructed of 

 poles with grass interwoven. The latter are occupied 

 by half-caste Portuguese from Ambaca, agents for the 

 Cassange traders. The cold in the mornings was now 

 severe to the feelings, the thermometer ranging from 58° 

 to 60°, though, when protected, sometimes standing as 

 high as 64° at six a.m. When the sun is well up, the 

 thermometer in the shade rises to 80°, and in the even- 

 ings it is about 78°. 



Having met with an accident to one of my eyes by a 

 blow from a branch in passing through a forest, I remained 

 some days here, endeavoring, though with much pain, to 

 draw a sketch of the country thus far, to be sent back to 



