474 A CASE FOR MUAVE. 



Indian corn from another. The chief administered muave 

 (the ordeal poison), the person vomited: was therefore innocent. 

 On the 21st he returned foot-sore and tired and at once pre- 

 sented some beer. This continual reference to food is natural, 

 as it is an important point in the intercourse of travellers 

 with the native tribes in Africa. Before the chief arrived they 

 got nothing ; the queen even begged a little meat for her sick 

 child, who was recovering from an attack of small-pox. There 

 being no shops they had to sit still without food. The next 

 day they received a goat cooked whole and plenty of porridge. 



Chitikola guided them on the 22d to a village called Ma- 

 shumba, the head man of which was the only chief who asked 

 anything except medicine. He usually gave two yards of un- 

 bleached calico. They had to go in the direction of the 

 villages which were on friendly terms with the guides, and 

 sometimes they went but a short distance, as they studied to 

 make the days as short as possible. Chitoku, the head man of 

 the last village, took them to a village of smiths — four furnaces 

 and one smithy being at work. When they had crossed the 

 Chiniambo, they found the country near the hills covered with 

 gum-copal trees, the bark-cloth tree, and rhododendrons. 



Mpanda led them a short cut to Chimuna's. On this route 

 they came into a herd of about fifteen elephants, and a number 

 of trees laid down by them : these animals chew woody 

 roots and branches as thick as the handle of a spade. Many 

 buffaloes and a herd of elands were seen ; a herd of baama or 

 hartebeest stood at two hundred paces, and one was shot. 



" While all were rejoicing over the meat," says the doctor, "we 

 got news, from the inhabitants of a large village in full flight, that 

 the Mazitu were out on a foray. While roasting and eating meat 

 I went forward with Mpanda to get men from Chimuna to carry 

 the rest, but was soon recalled. Another crowd were also in full 

 retreat ; the people were running straight to the Zalanyama 

 range regardless of their feet, making a path for themselves 

 through the forest; they had escaped from the Mazitu that 

 morning; 'they saw them ! ' Mpanda's people wished to leave 

 and go to look after their own village, but we persuaded them, 

 on pain of a milando, to take us to the nearest village, that was 

 at the bottom of Zalanyama proper, and we took the spoor of 



