234 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. IX. 



12th September. — We went by this water till 2 p.m., then 

 made a march, and to-morrow get to villages. Got a buffalo 

 and remain overnight. Water is in hsBmatite. I engaged 

 four pagazi here, named Motepatonze, Nsakusi, Muanama- 

 zungu, and Mayombo. 



15th September. — On to near range of hills. Much large 

 game here. 111. 



16th September. — Climbed over range about 200 feet high ; 

 then on westward to stockaded villages of Kamirambo. His 

 land begins at the M'toni. 



11th September. — To Metambo Eiver : 1£ broad, and 

 marshy. Here begins the land of Merera. Through forest 

 with many strychnus trees, 3£ hours, and arrive at Merera's. 



ISth September. — Eemain at Merera's to prepare food. 



[There is a significant entry here : the old enemy was 

 upon him. It would seem that his peculiar liability during 

 these travels to one prostrating form of disease was now 

 redoubled. The men speak of few periods of even com- 

 parative health from this date.] 



19$. September. — Ditto, ditto, because I am ill with bowels, 

 having eaten nothing for eight days. Simba wants us to 

 pass by his village, and not by the straight path. 



20th September. — Went to Simba's; 3£ hours. About 

 north-west. Simba sent a handsome present of food, a goat, 

 eggs, and a fowl, beans, split rice, dura, and sesame. I gave 

 him three dotis of superior cloth. 



21st September. — Rest here, as the complaint does not 

 yield to medicine or time ; but I begin to eat now, which 

 is a favourable symptom. Under a lofty tree at Simba's, a 

 kite, the common brown one, had two pure white eggs in its 

 nest, larger than a fowl's, and very spherical. The Banyam- 

 wesi women are in general very coarse, not a beautiful 

 woman amongst them, as is so common among the Batusi ; 

 squat, thick-set figures, and features too ; a race of pagazi. 



