308 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. XII. 



have to lay me down and die. Poor Mary lies on Sliu- 

 panga brae, " and beeks foment the sun." * 



Came to the Chando River, which is the boundary be- 

 tween Casembe and Chikumbi; but Casembe is over all. 



21th June. — We crossed a flooded marsh with the water 

 very cold, and then the Chando itself twelve feet broad 

 and knee deep, then on to another strong brook Nsenga. 



2Sth June. — After service we went on up hills to a 

 stockade of Banyamwezi, on the Kalomina Eiver, and here 

 we built our sheds ; the spot is called Kizinga, and is on 

 the top of a sandstone range covered as usual with forest. 

 The Banyamwezi beat off the Mazitu with their guns, while 

 all the country people fled. The Banyamwezi are decidedly 

 uglier than the Balonda and Baitawa : they eat no fish, 

 though they come from the east side of Tanganyika, where 

 fish are abundant and cheap ; but though uglier, they 

 have more of the sense of honour with traders than the 

 aborigines. 



29th June. — Observed the "smokes" to-day, the first of 

 the season :| they obscured the whole country. 



1st July, 1868. — I went over to Chikumbi, the paramount 

 •chief of this district, and gave him a cloth, begging a man 

 to guide me to Bangweolo. He said that I was welcome to 

 his country ; all were so : I had better wait two days till 

 he had selected a good man as a guide, and he would send 

 some food for me to eat in the journey — he would not say 

 ten days, but only two, and his man would take me to the 

 smaller part of the Lake, and leave others to forward me 

 to the greater or Bangweolo. The smaller part is named 

 Bemba, but that name is confusing, because Bemba is the 

 name of the country in which a portion of the Lake lies. 



* The allusion is to Mrs. Livingstone's grave. 



f At one season the long grass which covers the face of the country- 

 catches fire. For some three months the air is consequently filled with 

 smoke. — Ed. 



