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but all will come right some clay, though I may not live 

 to participate in the joy, or even see the commencement 

 of better times. 



In the evening we reached the village of Cherekalongwa 

 on the brook Pamchololo, and were very jovially received 

 by the headman with beer. He says that Mukate,* Kabinga, 

 and Mponda alone supply the slave-traders now by raids 

 on the Manganja, but they go S.W. to the Maravi, who, 

 impoverished by a Mazitu raid, sell each other as well. 



14th September. — At Cherekalongwa's (who has a skin 

 disease, believed by him to have been derived from eating 

 fresh-water turtles), Ave were requested to remain one day in 

 order that he might see us. He had heard 'much about us ; 

 had been down the Shire, and as far as Mosambique, but 

 never had an Englishman in his town before. As the heat 

 is great we were glad of the rest and beer, with which he 

 very freely supplied us. 



I saw the skin of a Phenembe, a species of lizard which 

 devours chickens; here it is named Salka. It had been 

 flayed by a cut up the back— body, 12 inches; across belly, 

 10 inches. 



After nearly giving up the search for Dr. Eoscher's point 

 of reaching the Lake — because no one, either Arab or native, 

 had the least idea of either Nusseewa or Makawa, the name 

 given to the place — I discovered it in Lessefa, the accen- 

 tuated e being sounded as our e in set. This word would 

 puzzle a German philologist, as being the origin of Nussewa, 

 but the Waiyau pronounce it Losewa, the Arabs Lussewa, 

 and Eoscher's servant transformed the L and e into JST and 

 ee, hence Nusseewa. In confirmation of this rivulet Lesefa, 

 which is opposite Kotakota, or, as the Arabs pronounce it, 

 Nkotakota, the chief is Mangkaka (Makawa), or as there 

 is a confusion of names as to chief it may be Mataka > 



Pronounced Mkata by the Waiyau. — Ed. 



