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seemed to give rise to one. Nothing of interest occurred as we 

 trudged along. A very poor head man, Pamawawa, presented 

 a roll of salt instead of food : this was grateful to us, as we 

 have been without that luxury 'Some time. 



"September 13. — We crossed a strong brook called Nkore. 

 My object in mentioning the brooks which were flowing at 

 this time, and near the end of the dry season, is to give an 

 idea of the sources of supply of evaporation. The men enu- 

 merate the following, north of the Misinje. Those which are 

 greater are marked thus +, and the lesser ones — . 



1. Misinje + has canoes. 



2. Loangwa — 



3. Lesefa — 



4. Lelula — 



5. Nchamanje — 



6. Musumba + 



7. Fubwe + 



8. Chia — 



9. Kisanga + 



10. Bweka — 



11. Chifumero 4- has canoes. 



12. Loangwa — 



13. Mkoho — 



14. Mangwelo — at N. end of lake. 



" Including the above there are twenty or twenty-four peren- 

 nial brooks and torrents which give a good supply of water in 

 the dry season ; in the wet season they are supplemented by a 

 number of burns, which, though flowing now, have their mouths 

 blocked up with bars of sand, and yield nothing except by per- 

 colation ; the lake rises at least four feet perpendicularly in the 

 wet season, and has enough during the year from these peren- 

 nial brooks to supply the Shire's continual flow." 



[It will be remembered that the beautiful river Shire carries 

 off the waters of Lake Nyassa and joins the Zambesi near 

 Mount Morambala, about ninety miles from the sea. It is by 

 this water-way that Livingstone always hoped to find an easy 

 access to Central Africa. "We will not forget the obstacles which 



