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natural or artificial Mohamad could not say. If a present is 

 made to the Eua chiefs they never obstruct passengers. 



Chikosi, at whose village we passed a night, near Ka- 

 longosi, and Chiputa are both dead. 



The Mofwe fills during the greater rains, and spreads over 

 a large district ; elephants then wander in its marshes, and 

 are killed easily by people in canoes: this happens every 

 year, and Mohamad Bogharib waits now for this ivory. 



7th to 21st February, 1868. — On inquiring of men who 

 have seen the underground houses in Eua, I find that they 

 are very extensive, ranging along mountain sides for twenty 

 miles, and in one part a rivulet flows inside. In some cases 

 the doorways are level with the country adjacent : in others, 

 ladders are used to climb up to them ; inside they are said 

 to be very large, and not the work of men, but of God. 

 The people have plenty of fowls, and they too obtain shelter 

 in these Troglodyte habitations. 



23rd February. — I was visited by an important chief 

 called Chape, who said that he wanted to make friends with 

 the English. He, Chisapi, Sama, Muabo, Karembwe, are of 

 one tribe or family, the Oanza: he did not beg anything, 

 and promised to send me a goat. 



