94 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. IV. 



29th August. — News come that the two dhows have come 

 over to Losewa (Losefa). The Mazitu had chased Junibe 

 up the hills : had they said, on to an island, I might have 

 believed them. 



30th August. — The fear which the English have inspired 

 in the Arab slave-traders is rather inconvenient. All flee 

 from me as if I had the plague, and I cannot in conse- 

 quence transmit letters to the coast, or get across the Lake. 

 They seem to think that if I get into a dhow I will be sure 

 to burn it. As the two dhows on the Lake are used for 

 nothing else but the slave-trade, their owners have no hope 

 of my allowing them to escape, so after we have listened 

 to various lies as excuses, we resolve to go southwards; and 

 cross at the point of departure of the Shire from the Lake. 

 I took lunars several times on both sides of the moon, and 

 have written a despatch for Lord Clarendon, besides a 

 number of private letters. 



3rd September, 1866. — Went down to confluence of the 

 Misinje and came to many of the eatable insect "kungu," 

 — they are caught by a quick motion of the hand holding 

 a basket. We got a cake of these same insects further 

 down ; they make a buzz like a swarm of bees, and are 

 probably the perfect state of some Lake insect. 



I observed two beaches of the Lake : one about fifteen feet 

 above the present high-water mark, and the other about forty 

 above that ; but between the two the process of disintegra- 

 tion, which results from the sudden cold and heat in 

 these regions, has gone on so much that seldom is a well- 

 rounded smoothed one seen ; the lower beach is very well 

 marked. 



The strike of large masses of foliated gneiss is parallel 

 with the major axis of the Lake, and all are tilted on edge. 

 Some are a little inclined to the Lake, as if dipping to it 

 westwards, but others are as much inclined the opposite 

 way, or twisted. 



