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and two which attain the large size of 4 feet by lh in 

 thickness : one is called Sampa. 



22nd July. — A very high wind came with the new moon, 

 and prevented our going, and also the fishermen from fol- 

 lowing their calling. Mapuni thought that we meant to 

 make an escape from him to the Babisa on the south, because 

 we were taking our goats, I therefore left them and two 

 attendants at Masantu's village, to assure him. 



23rd July. — Wind still too strong to go. Took lunars. 



24th July. — Wind still strong. 



25th Jidy. — Strong S.E. wind still blowing, but having 

 paid the canoe-men amply for four days with beads, 

 and given Masantu a hoe and beads too, we embarked at 

 11.40 a.m. in a fine canoe, 45 feet long, 4 feet deep, and 4 

 feet broad. The waves were high, but the canoe was very 

 dry, and five stout men propelled her quickly towards an 

 opening in Lifunge Island, on our S.E. Here we stopped 

 to wood, and I went away to look at the island, which had 

 the marks of hippopotami and a species of jackal on it : 

 it had hard wiry grass, some flowers, and a species of 

 Capparidaceous tree. The trees showed well the direction 

 of the prevailing wind to be south-east, for the branches 

 on that side were stunted or killed, while those on the 

 north-west ran out straight, and made the trees appear, as 

 sailors say, lopsided : the trunks too were bent that way. 



The canoe-men now said that they would start, then that 

 they would sleep here, because we could not reach the 

 Island Mpabala before dark, and would not get a hut. I 

 said that it would be sleeping out of doors only in either 

 case, so they went. We could see the island called Eisi 

 on our east, apparently a double island, about 15 miles off, 

 and the tops of the trees barely visible on Mpabala on our 

 south-east. It was all sea horizon on our south and north, 

 between Lifunge and Mpabala, and between Lifunge and 

 Eisi. We could not go to Eisi, because, as the canoe-men 



