560 EFFECT OF RAINS. Chap. XXVIII. 



CHAPTEE XXVIII. 



Beautiful valley — Buffalo — My young men kill two elephants — The hunt — 

 Mode of measuring height of live elephants — Wild animals smaller here 

 than in the south, though their food is more abundant — The elephant 

 a dainty feeder — Semalembue — His presents — Joy in prospect of living 

 in peace — Trade — His people's way of wearing their hair — Their mode 

 of salutation — Old encampment — Sebituane's former residence — Ford of 

 Kafue — Hippopotami — Hills and villages — Geological formation — Pro- 

 digious quantities of large game — Their tameness — Hains — Less sick- 

 ness than in the journey to Loanda — Reason — Charge from an elephant 



— Vast amount of animal life on the Zambesi — Water of river discoloured 



— An island with buffaloes and men on it — Native devices for killing game 



— Tsetse now in country — Agricultural industry — An Albino murdered 

 by his mother — "Guilty of tlolo" — Women who make their mouths 

 " like those of ducks" — First symptom of the slave-trade on this side — 

 Selole's hostility — An armed party hoaxed — An Italian marauder slain — 

 Elephant's tenacity of life — A word to young sportsmen — Mr. Oswell's 

 adventure with an elephant; narrow escape — Mburuma's village — Sus- 

 picious conduct of his people — Guides attempt to detain us — The village 

 and people of Ma Mburuma — Character our guides give of us. 



13th. — The country is becoming very beautiful, and furrowed 

 by deep valleys ; the underlying rocks, being igneous, have yielded 

 fertile soil. There is great abundance of large game. The 

 buffaloes select open spots, and often eminences, as standing- 

 places through the day. We crossed the Mbai, and found in its 

 bed, rocks of pink marble. Some little lulls near it are capped 

 by marble of beautiful whiteness, the underlying rock being 

 igneous. Violent showers occur frequently on the lulls, and cause 

 such sudden sweeping floods in these rivulets, that five of our 

 men, who had gone to the other side for firewood, were obliged to 

 swim back. The temperature of the air is lowered considerably 

 by the daily rains. Several times the thermometer at sunrise 

 has been as low as 68°, and 74° at sunset. Generally, how- 

 ever, it stood at from 72° to 74° at sunrise, 90° to 96° at midday, 

 and 80° to 84° at sunset. The sensation, however, as before 

 remarked, was not disagreeable. 



14^A. — We entered a most beautiful valley, abounding in large 



