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headman, evidently one of a former Casenibe school, came 

 to us full of wrath. "What right had we to come that way, 

 seeing the usual path was to our left ? " He mouthed some 

 sentences in the pompous Limda style, but would not show 

 us the path ; so we left him, and after going through a 

 forest of large trees, 4J hours south, took advantage of 

 some huts on the Kifurwa Eiver, built by bark-cloth 

 cutters. 



15th November. — Heavy rains, but we went on, and found 

 a village, Kifurwa, surrounded by cassava fields, and next 

 day crossed the Muatoze, 25 yards wide, and running 

 strongly towards Moero, knee deep. The River Kabukwa, 

 seven yards wide, and also knee deep, going to swell the 

 Muatoze. 



We now crossed a brook, Chirongo, one yard wide and 

 one deep ; but our march was all through well-grown forest, 

 chiefly gum-copal trees and bark-cloth trees. The gum- 

 copal oozes out in abundance after or during the rains, 

 from holes a quarter of an inch in diameter, made by an 

 insect : it falls, and in time sinks into the soil, a supply for 

 future generations. The small well-rounded features of the 

 people of Nsama's country are common here, as we observe 

 in the salt-traders and villages ; indeed, this is the home of 

 the Negro, and the features such as we see in pictures of 

 ancient Egyptians, as first pointed out by Mr. Winwood 

 Eeade. We sleep by the river Mandapala, 12 yards wide, 

 and knee deep. 



18th November. — We rest by the Kabusi, a sluggish 

 narrow rivulet. It runs into the Chungu, a quarter of a 

 mile off. The Chungu is broad, but choked with trees and 

 aquatic plants : Sapotas, Eschinomenas, Papyrus, tvc. The 

 free stream is 18 yards wide, and waist deep. We had to 

 wade about 100 yards, thigh and waist deep, to get to the 

 free stream. 



On this, the Chungu, Dr. Lacerda died ; it is joined by 



