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CHAPTER XIII. 



Cataracts of the Kalongosi. Passage of the river disputed. Leeches- 

 and method of detaching them. Syde bin Habib's slaves escape. 

 Enormous collection of tusks. 111. Theory of the Nile sources. 

 Tribute to Miss Tinne. Notes on climate. Separation of Lake 

 Nyassa from the Nile system. Observations on Victoria Nyanza. 

 Slaves dying. Eepentant deserters. Mohamad Bogharib. Enraged 

 Imbozhwa. An attack. Narrow escape. Renewed attack. A parley. 

 Help arrives. Bin Juma. March from the Imbozhwa country. 

 Slaves escape. Burial of Syde bin Habib's brother. Singular custom. 

 An elephant killed. Native game-laws. Rumour of Baker's Expedi- 

 tion. Christmas dinners. 



11th October, 1868. — Feom Kizinga north the country is all 

 covered with forest, and thrown up into ridges of hardened 

 sandstone, capped occasionally with fine-grained clay schist. 

 Trees often appear of large size and of a species closely 

 resembling the gum-copal tree ; on the heights masukos 

 and rhododendrons are found, and when exposed they are 

 bent away from the south-east. Animals, as buffaloes and 

 elephants, are plentiful, but wild. Rivulets numerous, and 

 running now as briskly as brooks do after much rain in 

 England. All on the south-western side of Kalongosi are 

 subjects of Casembe, that is Balunda, or Imbozhwa. 



It was gratifying to see the Banyamwezi carrying their 

 sick in cots slung between two men : in the course of time 

 they tired of this, and one man, who was carried several 

 days, remained with Chuma. We crossed the Luongo far 

 above where we first became acquainted with it, and near 

 its source in Urungu or Usungu Hills, then the Lobubu, 



