22 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOUBNALS. [Chap. I. 



An old Monyinko headman presented a goat and asked if 

 the sepoys wished to cut its throat : the Jokannees, being 

 of a different sect of Mahometans, wanted to cut it in some 

 other way than their Indian co-religionists : then ensued a 

 fierce dispute as to who was of the right sort of Moslem ! It 

 was interesting to see that not Christians alone, but other 

 nations feel keenly on religious subjects. 



I saw rocks of grey sandstone (like that which overlies 

 coal) and the Kovuma in the distance. Didi is the name 

 of a village whose headsman, Chombokea, is said to be a 

 doctor ; all the headmen pretend or are really doctors ; how- 

 ever one, Fundindomba, came after me for medicine for 

 himself. 



14:th April. — To-day we succeeded in reaching the Kovuma, 

 where some very red cliffs appear on the opposite heights, 

 and close by where it is marked on the map that the Pioneer 

 turned back in 1861. Here we rested on Sunday 15th. 



16th April. — Our course now lay westwards, along the 

 side of that ragged outline of table-land, which we had 

 formerly seen from the river as flanking both sides. There 

 it appeared a range of hills shutting in Rovuma, here we 

 had spurs jutting out towards the river, and valleys retiring 

 from a mile to three miles inland. Sometimes we wended 

 our way round them, sometimes rose over and descended 

 their western sides, and then a great deal of wood-cutting 

 was required. The path is not straight, but from one 

 village to another. We came perpetually on gardens, and 

 remarked that rice was sown among the other grain ; there 

 must be a good deal of moisture at other times to admit 

 of this succeeding : at present the crops were suffering for 

 want of rain. We could purchase plenty of rice for the 

 sepoys, and well it was so, for the supply which was to last 

 till we arrived at Ngomano was finished on the 13th. An 

 old doctor, with our food awaiting, presented me with two 

 large bags of rice and his wife husked it for us. 



