SO LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. II. 



kept in the stm for eight hours at a stretch. When we 

 get up at 4 a.m. we cannot get under weigh before 8 o'clock. 

 Sepoys are a mistake. 



1th May. — "We are now opposite a mountain called 

 jSTabungala, which resembles from the north-east an elephant 

 lying down. Another camel, a very good one, died on the 

 way : its shiverings and convulsions are not at all like what 

 we observed in horses and oxen killed by tsetse, but such 

 may be the cause, however. The only symptom pointing to 

 the tsetse is the arterial-looking blood, but we never saw it 

 ooze from the skin after the bite of the gad-fly as we do 

 now. 



8th May. — "We arrived at a village called Jponde, or 

 Liponde, which lies opposite a granitic hill on the other 

 side of the river (where we spent a night on our boat trip), 

 called Nakapuri; this is rather odd, for the words are not 

 Makonde but Sichuana, and signify goat's horn, from the 

 projections jutting out from the rest of the mass. I left 

 the havildar, sepoys, and ISTassick boys here in order to 

 make a forced march forward, where no food is to be had, 

 and send either to the south or westwards for supplies, so 

 that after they have rested the animals and themselves five 

 days they may come. One mule is very ill ; one buffalo 

 drowsy and exhausted; one camel a mere skeleton from 

 bad sores; and another has an enormous hole at the 

 point of the pelvis, which sticks out at the side. I suspect 

 that this was made maliciously, for he came from the field 

 bleeding profusely ; no tree would have perforated a round 

 hole in this way. I take all the goods and leave only the 

 sepoys' luggage, which is enough for all the animals now. 



9th May. — I went on with the Johanna men and twenty- 

 four carriers, for it was a pleasure to get away from the sepoys 

 and Nassick boys ; the two combined to overload the animals. 

 I told them repeatedly that they would kill them, but no 

 sooner had I adjusted the burdens and turned my back than 



