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CHAPTER VII. 



Prepare for a journey to the Makololo country — Sailors' garden — "Wheat, 

 time and mode of sowing — Start from Tette May 15th, to take the Makololo 

 home — Lukewarnmess and desertions — Evil effects of contact with slaves 

 — Man lion and lion man — Reasoning with a lion — Popular belief — New 

 path through Kebrabasa hills — Sandia — Elephant-hunt — Game law — 

 A feast of elephant-meat — We strike Zambesi by Morumbwa, and complete 

 the survey of Kebrabasa from end to end — Banyai again — View of 

 Kebrabasa — Chicova plains and open river — Sandia's report of Kebrabasa. 



Feeling in honour bound to return with those who had been 

 the faithful companions of Dr. Livingstone, in 1856, and to 

 whose guardianship and services was due the accomplishment 

 of a journey which all the Portuguese at Tette had previously 

 pronounced impossible, the requisite steps were taken to 

 convey them to then homes. 



We laid the ship alongside of the island Kanyimbe, opposite 

 Tette ; and, before starting for the country of the Makololo, 

 obtained a small plot of land, to form a garden for the 

 two English sailors who were to remain in charge during 

 our absence. We furnished them with a supply of seeds, 

 and they set to work with such zeal, that they cer- 

 tainly merited success. Their first attempt at African 

 horticulture met with failure from a most unexpected source ; 

 every seed was dug up and the inside of it eaten by 

 mice. " Yes," said an old native, next morning, on seeing 

 the husks, " that is what happens this month ; for it is the 

 mouse month, and the seed should have been sown last month, 

 when I sowed mine." The sailors, however, sowed more 

 next clay; and, being determined to outwit the mice, they 



