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CHAPTEE IV. 



Geology and description of the Waiyau land. Leaves Mataka's. The 

 Nyumbo plant. Native iron-foundry. Blacksmiths. Makes for the 

 Lake Nyassa. Delight at seeing the Lake once more. The Manganja or 

 Nyassa tribe. Arab slave crossing. Unable to procure passage across. 

 The Kungu fly. Fear of the English amongst slavers. Lake shore. 

 Blue ink. Chitane changes colour. The Nsaka fish. Makalaose 

 drinks beer. The Sanjika fish. London antiquities. Lake rivers. 

 Mukate's. Lake Pamalombe. Mponda's. A slave gang. Wikatani 

 discovers his relatives and remains. 



28th July, 1866. — We proposed to start to-day, but Ma- 

 taka said that he was not ready yet : the flour had to be 

 ground, and he had given us no meat. He had sent plenty 

 of cooked food almost every day. He asked if we would 

 slaughter the ox he would give here, or take it on ; we 

 preferred to kill it at once. He came on the 28th with a 

 good lot of flour for us, and men to guide us to Nyassa, 

 telling us that this was Moembe, and his district extended 

 all the way to the Lake : he would not send us to Losewa, 

 as that place had lately been plundered and burned. 



In general the chiefs have shown an anxiety to promote 

 our safety. The country is a mass of mountains. On 

 leaving Mataka's we ascended considerably, and about the 

 end of the first day's march, near Magola's village, the 

 barometer showed our greatest altitude, about 3400 feet 

 above the sea. There were villages of these mountaineers 

 everywhere, for the most part of 100 houses or more each. 

 The springs were made the most use of that they knew ; 



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