270 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOUENALS. [Chap. X. 



The moisture caused a profusion of gingers, ferns, and tro- 

 pical forest : buffaloes, zebras and elephants are numerous, 

 and the villagers at Chukosi's, where we slept, warned us 

 against lions and leopards. 



12th January. — Sunday at Karembwe's village. The 

 mountains east of him are called Makunga. We went 

 yesterday to the shore, and by protraction Rua point was 

 distant thirty-three miles. Karembwe sent for us, to have 

 an audience ; he is a large man with a gruff voice, but liked 

 by his people and by strangers. I gave him a cloth, and 

 he gave me a goat. The enthusiasm with which I held on 

 to visit Moero had communicated itself to Tipo Tipo and 

 Syde bin Alle, for they followed me up to this place to 

 see the Lake, and remained five days while we were at 

 Casembe's. Other Arabs, or rather Suahelis, must have 

 seen it, but never mentioned it as anything worth looking 

 at ; and it was only when all hope of ivory was gone that 

 these two headmen found time to come. There is a large 

 population here. 



13th January. — Heavy rains. Karembe mentioned a na- 

 tural curiosity as likely to interest me: a little rivulet, 

 Chipamba, goes some distance underground, but is un- 

 interesting. 



Next day we crossed the Vuna, a strong torrent, which 

 has a hot fountain close by the ford, in which maize and 

 cassava may be boiled. A large one in Nsama's country is 

 used in the same way, maize and cassava being tied to a 

 string and thrown in to be cooked : some natives believe 

 that earthquakes are connected with its violent ebullitions. 

 We crossed the Katette, another strong torrent, before 

 reaching the north end of Moero, where we slept in some 

 travellers' huts. 



Leaving the Lake, and going north, we soon got on to a 

 plain flooded by the Luao. We had to wade through very 

 adhesive black mud, generally ankle deep, and having 



