526 THE COVENANT. 



"A small ant masters the common fly by seizing a wing or 

 leg, and holding on till the fly is tired out ; at first the fly can 

 move about on the wing without inconvenience, but it is at last 

 obliged to succumb to an enemy very much smaller than itself. 



"A species of Touraco, new to me, has a broad yellow mask 

 on the upper part of the bill and forehead ; the topknot is pur- 

 ple, the wings the same as in other species, but the red is roseate. 

 The yellow of the mask plates is conspicuous at a distance." 



At last, after so long a time, and more lying and plundering 

 on both sides than we could recount in a volume, affairs were 

 brought to something like a settlement between Nsama and 

 Hamees, and Nsama promised to seal the covenant of peace 

 by giving one of his daughters to Hamees as a wife ! The way 

 was now cleared of the great obstacle, and Livingstone with his 

 little band set out across the country in company with the 

 Arabs. 



The country is described as quite beautiful. Crossing the 

 Urangu and the Lofu, which, the reader will remember, had 

 been crossed nearer their sources before reaching the lake, they 

 ascended the ridge Avhich forms the water-shed between Lake 

 Liernba and the Moero. Descending this ridge they were in 

 Itawa, the dominion of Nsama. This chief was of a different 

 family from those of Urangu. Kasonso, Chitimba, and Urong- 

 we, were all Urangai, and equal in rank ; Nsama was of the 

 Babemba family. 



The party marched first to Hara, a district of Itawa, whose 

 stockaded village had been destroyed by the Arabs during the 

 " late unpleasantness " of which we have told you. 



They were here on the 5th of September, 1867. "Obedient 

 to the customs of the country," says the doctor, " we waited at 

 Hara to see if Nsama wished us any nearer to himself. He is 

 very much afraid of the Arabs, and Avell he may be, for he 

 was until lately supposed to be invincible. He fell before 

 twenty muskets, and this has caused a panic throughout the 

 country." 



It was distressing indeed to see so fine a district almost 

 abandoned by its occupants. The strife had been short, and 

 only a " little quarrel," as we, who are acquainted with civilized 

 war, would think ; but the people had fled ; and there were no 



