304 LAKE DILOLO. 



During our second day on this extensive plain I suffered 

 from my twenty-seventh attack of fever, at a part where 

 no surface-water was to be found. We never thought it 

 necessary to carry water with us in this region ; and now, 

 when I was quite unable to move on, my men soon found 

 water to allay my burning thirst by digging with sticks a 

 few feet beneath the surface. We had thus an opportunity 

 of observing the state of these remarkable plains at differ- 

 ent seasons of the year. Next day we pursued our way, 

 and on the 8th of June we forded the Lotembwa to the 

 .N. W. of Dilolo, and regained our former path. 



After crossing the Northern Lotembwa, we met a party 

 of the people of Kangenke, who had treated us kindly on 

 our way to the north, and sent him a robe of striped calico, 

 with an explanation of the reason for not returning through 

 his village. We then went on to the Lake Dilolo. It is a 

 fine sheet of water, six or eight miles long and one or two 

 broad, and somewhat of a triangular shape. A branch 

 proceeds from one of the angles and flows into the Southern 

 Lotembwa. 



We found Moene Dilolo (Lord of the Lake) a fat, jolly 

 fellow, who lamented that when they had no strangers 

 they had plenty of beer, and always none when they came. 

 He gave us a handsome present of meal and putrid buffalo's 

 flesh. Meat cannot be too far gone for them, as it is used 

 only in small quantities, as a sauce to their tasteless manioc 



June 14. — We reached the collection of straggling vil- 

 lages over which Katema rules, and were thankful to see 

 old familiar faces again. Shakatwala performed the part 

 of a chief by bringing forth abundant supplies of food in 

 nis master's name. He informed us that Katema, too, was 

 out hunting skins for Matiamvo. 



On the 15th Katema came home from his hunting, having 

 heard of our arrival. He desired me to rest myself and 

 eat abundantly, for, being a great man, I must feel tired, 

 and took good care to give the means of doing so. All the 

 people in these parts are exceedingly kind and liberal with 



