208 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOUENALS. [Chai\ VIII. 



and covered with scraggy forest as usual, long lines of 

 low hills or rather ridges of denudation run N. and S. on 

 our east. This is called Moami country, full of elephants, 

 but few are killed. They do much damage, eating the 

 sorghum in the gardens unmolested. 



11th May. — A short march to-day brought us to a village 

 on the same Moami, and to avoid a Sunday in the forest we 

 remained. The elephants had come into the village and 

 gone all about it, and to prevent their opening the corn 

 safes the people had bedaubed them with elephant's drop- 

 pings. When a cow would not give milk, save to its calf, 

 a like device was used at Kolobeng; the cow's droppings 

 were smeared on the teats, and the calf was too much 

 disgusted to suck : the cow then ran till she was distressed 

 by the milk fever and was willing to be relieved by the 

 herdsman. 



12th and 13th May. — News that the Arabs had been 

 fighting with Nsama came, but this made us rather anxious 

 to get northward along Liemba, and we made for Mokam- 

 bola's village near the edge of the precipice which over- 

 hangs the Lake. Many Shuare Eaphia palms grow in the 

 river which flows past it. 



As we began our descent we saw the Lofu coming from 

 the west and entering Liemba. A projection of Liemba 

 comes to meet it, and then it is said to go away to the 

 north or north-west as far as my informants knew. Some 

 pointed due north, others north-west, so probably its true 

 course amounts to N.N.W. We came to a village about 

 2' W. of the confluence, whose headman was affable and 

 generous. The village has a meadow some four miles wide 

 on the land side, in which buffaloes disport themselves, 

 but they are very wild, and hide in the gigantic grasses. 

 Sorghum, ground-nuts, and voandzeia grow puxuriantly. 

 The Lofu is a quarter of a mile wide, but higher up three 

 hundred yards. The valley was always clouded over at 



