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



brightly in persons of light complexion, who by the bye are 

 common. The Makonde and Matambwe file their front teeth 

 to points; the Machinga, a Waiyau 

 tribe, leave two points on the sides 

 of the front teeth, and knock out one 

 of the middle incisors above and 



Machinga and Waiyau Teeth. -i i 



lAth June. — I am now as much dependent on carriers as if 

 I had never bought a beast of burden — but this is poor stuff 

 to fill a journal with. We started off to Metaba to see if 

 the chief there would lend some men. The headman, Kit- 

 wanga, went a long way to convoy us; then turned, saying 

 he was going to get men for Musa next clay. We passed 

 near the base of the rounded masses Ngozo and Mekanga,, 

 and think, from a near inspection, that they are over 200O 

 feet above the plain, possibly 3000 feet, and nearly bare,, 

 with only the peculiar grassy plant on some parts which 

 are not too perpendicular. The people are said to have 

 stores of grain on them, and on one the chief said there is 

 water ; he knows of no stone buildings of the olden time in 

 the country. We passed many masses of ferruginous conglo- 

 merate, and I noticed that most of the gneiss dips westwards. 

 The stria? seem as if the rock had been partially molten : at 

 times the strike is north and south, at others east and west ; 

 Avhen Ave come to what may have been its surface, it is as- 

 if the striae had been stirred with a rod while soft. 



We slept at a point of the Eovuma, above a cataract where* 

 a reach of comparatively still water, from 150 to 200 yards 

 wide, allows a school of hippopotami to live : when the 

 river becomes fordable in many places, as it is said to do 

 in August and September, they must find it difficult to 

 exist. 



15th June. — Another three hours' march brought us from 

 the sleeping-place on the Eovuma to Metaba, the chief of 

 which, Kinazombe, is an elderly man, with a cunning and 



