160 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. VI. 



asked beads, so we made them a present of two fundos. By 

 lunars I was one day wrong to-day. 



Ath Deceniber. — Very heavy rain from north all night. 

 Baker's Lake cannot be as near as he puts it in his map, for 

 it is unknown to Lohinge. He thinks that he is a hundred 

 years old, but he is really about forty-five ! Namataranga 

 is the name of birds which float high in air in large flocks. 



5th December. — We go over to a point on our east. The 

 bay is about 12' broad : the mountains here are very 

 beautiful. We visited the chief Mukamba, at his village 

 five miles north of Lohinga's ; he wanted us to remain a 

 few days, but I declined. We saw two flocks of Ibis 

 religiosa, numbering in all fifty birds, feeding like geese. 



6th December. — Bemain at Luhinga's. 



7th December. — Start and go S.W. to Lohanga : passed the 

 point where Speke turned, then breakfasted at the market- 

 place. 



8th December. — Go on to Mukamba ; near the boundary of 

 Babembe and Bavira. We pulled six hours to a rocky islet, 

 with two rocks covered with trees on its western side. The 

 Babembe are said to be dangerous, on account of having 

 been slaughtered by the Malongwana. The Lat. of these 

 islands is 3° 41' S. 



9th December. — Leave New York Herald Islet and go S. 

 to Lubumba Cape. The people now are the Basansas along 

 the coast. Some men here were drunk and troublesome: 

 we gave them a present and left them about 4^ in afternoon 

 and went to an islet at the north end in about three hours, 

 good pulling, and afterwards in eight hours to the eastern 

 shore ; this makes the Lake, say, 28 or 30 miles broad. We 

 coasted along to Mokungos and rested. 



10^ December. — Kisessa is chief of all the islet Mozima. 

 His son was maltreated at Ujiji and died in consequence ; 

 this stopped the dura trade, and we were not assaulted 

 because not Malongwana. 



