130 RETURN TO THE SHIP. Chap. VI. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Return to vessel — Nearly poisoned by the juice of cassava — " Cassereep," or 

 cassava sap, a perfect preservative of meat — Dr. Kirk takes direct route 

 from Ckibisa's to Tette — Great suffering in the journey — Magnetical 

 observations by Charles Livingstone — Shire biscuit — Wheaten flour neces- 

 sary for European stomachs — Season for sowing wheat — Off to Kongone 



— Two miles of elephants — Our generous friend Senhor Ferrao — Kongone 



— Beach vessel for repairs — ■Arrival of H.M.S. Lynx — Loss of mail — 

 Leave for Tette Dec. 16th — Governor at Shupanga — His opinions and 

 ours — Confessions of an old slave-dealer — Paul Mariano — Arrival at 

 Tette, Feb. 2nd, 1860 — Fabulous silver-mine of Chicova — Exactions of the 

 Banyai submitted to by the Portuguese — Sumptuary laws — Portuguese 

 of Tette — Wine or climate ? — Funerals — Weddings — Coal and gold — ■ 

 Defer our departure for the interior — Down again to Kongone — Up 

 stream 15th March — Secret canal used for slaving — Governor of Quilli- 

 mane sent to discover Kongone — Mr. Sunlcy's attempt to begin lawful 

 trade at river Angoxe — Major Sicard at Mazaro — Change of names — Its 

 advantages — The "Asthmatic," very ill indeed — Mr. Rao goes home on 

 duty — The Kwakwa river — " Comical creatures " — Mice ■ — Hope for fat 

 folk, or cockroaches as aids to Banting — Zulus come to lift their rents 

 at Senna — Striped Senna pigs and fever — Fever plant — Reach Tette 25th 

 April — Want of irrigation — One branch of Tette industry. 



After a land-journey of forty days, we returned to the ship 

 on the 6th of October, 1859, in a somewhat exhausted con- 

 dition, arising more from a sort of poisoning, than from the 

 usual fatigue of travel. We had taken a little mulligatawney 

 paste, for making soup, in case of want of time to cook other 

 food. Late one afternoon, at the end of an unusually long 

 march, we reached Mikena, near the base of Mount Njongone 

 to the north of Zomba, and the cook was directed to use a 

 couple of spoonfuls of the paste ; but, instead of doing so, 

 he put in the whole potful. The soup tasted rather hot, 



