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which he obeyed in taking a man's head off of whom he might 

 dream several times, and he was unscrupulous about the execu- 

 tion of witches ; but there were other decisions of his which in- 

 dicated that, outside of the influence of his superstitions, he 

 could apply sound reasoning in dispensing justice. 



We will not weary the reader with the recital of the trifling 

 incidents of camping and village receptions, which were only 

 such as his own imagination may now suggest. Dr. Living- 

 stone left Casembe's on the 11th of June, after having suffered 

 another delay of more than a month by the dilatoriness of that 

 worthy gentleman. Marching almost due south a little more 

 than a month, he was rewarded at length, on the ] 8th of July, 

 1868, by the discovery of one of the largest lakes of central 

 Africa. He had not travelled much more than one hundred 

 miles from Casembe, no more than an average of three miles a 

 day ; and besides the tediousness of the journey, had endured 

 many hardships and faced many dangers ; but as it had been so 

 many times before, the joy of realizing his hope made him for- 

 get the weariness and the perils he had endured. Over a large 

 part of the country he had found scattered villages of Wanyam- 

 wezi, w 7 ho, acknowledging the authority of the sultan at Zanzi- 

 bar, were very respectful and helpful. They have settled in 

 the country only as traders, and though they frequently render 

 great service by beating back the Mazitu, who find such easy 

 prey in the aborigines, they are viewed with jealous eye by 

 both the Balonda and the Baitawa. These tribes look with 

 fear and envy on their growing power, and not unfrequently 

 these foreign settlers are obliged to turn their weapons on them 

 in self-defence. One of the pleasantest of the Wanyamwezi 

 head men was Kombo Kombo, whose stockade was on the bank 

 of the Chiberase river. The doctor came there in the midst of 

 a general jollification, and was most bountifully supplied with 

 pombe and food, and when he expressed his regret that his 

 goods were all gone and he had nothing to pay with, his gener- 

 ous host assured him that he expected nothing, he was "a child 

 of the sultan and ought to furnish all the doctor needed." 



Copper and the iron ore so often mentioned were seen at 

 different places ; and the doctor speaks of crossing grassy plains 

 and ranges of splendid hills; there were neat little gardens 



