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lat. 16° 9' 3" S., long. 33° 28' E.) My companions thought 

 that we were captured by the armed men, and called me 

 in alarm. "When I understood the errand on which they had 

 come, and nad partaKen ot a good breakfast, though I had 

 just before been too tired to sleep, all my fatigue vanished. 

 It was the most refreshing breakfast I ever partook of; 

 and I walked the last eight miles without the least feeling 

 of weariness, although the path was so rough that one of 

 the officers remarked to me, " This is enough to tear a 

 man's life out of him." The pleasure experienced in par- 

 taking of that breakfast was only equalled by the enjoy- 

 ment of Mr. Gabriel's bed on my arrival at Loanda. It 

 was also enhanced by the news that Sebastopol had fallen 

 and the war was finished. 



CHAPTEE XXXI. 



dr. Livingstone's residence at tete. 



I was most kindly received by the commandant, Tito 

 Augusto d'Araujo Sicard, who did every thing in his power 

 to restore me from my emaciated condition; and, as this 

 was still the unhealthy period at Kilimane, he advised me 

 to remain with him until the following month. He also 

 generously presented my men with abundant provisions of 

 millet; and, by giving them lodgings in a house of his own 

 until they could erect their own huts, he preserved them 

 from the bite of the tampans, here named Carapatos. We 

 had heard frightful accounts of this insect while among the 

 Banyai ; and Major Sicard assured me that to strangers its 

 bite is more especially dangerous, as it sometimes causes 

 fatal fever It may please our homoeopathic friends to hear 

 that, in curing the bite of the tampan, the natives admi- 

 nister one of the insects bruised in the medicine employed. 



The village of Tete is built on a long slope down to the 



