A DISAGREEABLE MAN. 479 



The first rain — a thunder shower — fell in the afternoon ; it 

 was effectual, in one sense : it deprived a friend of the chance 

 of getting the five carriers who were in their gardens planting 

 seed. He got three and was compelled to remain over. They 

 journeyed westward the next day, and a little towards south 

 through a country full of trees ; here they saw wild hogs in a 

 group, though marks of elephants, buffaloes and other animals 

 were abundant. 



Xovembcr 1st, 1866, they arrived at Chigumokire ; the next 

 morning proceeded to Kangene. This village was situated in 

 a mass of mountains, and to reach this they had to go a little 

 farther south than desired. Their appearance caused much alarm, 

 and they were requested to wait until our spokesman explained 

 the unusual phenomena of the white man. Kangene was very 

 disagreeable to Livingstone, and as he had to employ five car- 

 riers off him he was in this chief's power. He told the doctor 

 that a brother of his had been killed by the Mazitu and he 

 thought that probably they belonged to them. He told some 

 untruths and then began to beg powder. He represented the 

 country to be quite impassable from want of food ; the Mazitu 

 had stripped it ; the people were living off wild fruits. They 

 were detained here, on account of the illness of Simon, for four 

 days. The head man agreed to let them have five men, but de- 

 manded such enormous wages that on the 7th they took seven 

 loads forward, leaving two men with the rest; slept there and 

 returned for the remainder on the 8th. Kangene was disagree- 

 able to the last. He asked where they had gone, and, having 

 described the turning point as near the hill Chimbimbe, he com- 

 plimented them on going so far, and then sent an offer of three 

 men ; but Livingstone preferred not to have those who would 

 have been spies unless he could give five and take on all the 

 loads. 



The country over which they travel at present is level and 

 elevated, but there are mountains all about, which would ap- 

 pear quite mountainous if on a map. The Leue or Leuia is 

 said by the people to flow into the Loangwa. The Chigumokire 

 coming from the north in front, eastward of Irongwe (the same 

 mountains on which Kangene skulks out of sight of Mazitu), 

 flows into the Leue, and north of that is the Mando, a little 



