134 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chat\ V. 



We crossed the Diampwe or Adiampwe, from five to fifteen 

 yards wide, and well supplied with water even now. It rises 

 near the Ndomo mountains, and flows northwards into the 

 Lintipe and Lake. We found Chitokola's village, called 

 Paritala, a pleasant one on the east side of the Adiampwe 

 Valley. Many elephants and other animals feed in the 

 valley, and we saw the Bechuana Hopo* again after many 

 years. 



The Ambarre, otherwise Nyumbo plant, has a pea-shaped, 

 or rather papilionaceous flower, with a fine scent. It seems 

 to grow quite wild ; its flowers are yellow. 



Chaola is the poison used by the Maravi for their arrows, 

 it is said to cause mortification. 



One of the wonders usually told of us in this upland 

 .region is that we sleep Avithout fire. The boys' blankets 

 suffice for warmth during the night, when the thermometer 

 sinks to 64°— 60°, but no one else has covering sufficient ; 

 some huts in process of building here show that a thick 

 coating of plaster is put on outside the roof before the grass 

 thatch is applied; not a chink is left for the admission 

 of air. 



Chitikola was absent from Paritala when we arrived on 

 some milando or other. These milandos are the business of 

 their lives. They are like petty lawsuits ; if one trespasses 

 ■on his neighbour's rights in any way it is a milando, and 

 rt;he headmen of all the villages about are called on to 

 settle it. Women are a fruitful source of milando. A 

 few ears of Indian corn had been taken by a person, and 

 Chitikola had been called a full day's journey off to settle 

 ihis milando. He administered Muave\ and the jDerson 



* The Hopo is a funnel-shaped fence which encloses a considerable 

 tract of country : a " drive " is organised, and animals of all descriptions 

 are urged on till they become jammed together in the neck of the hopo, 

 where they are speared to death or else destroyed in a number of pitfalls 

 ^placed there for the purpose. f The ordeal poison. 



