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CHAPTEK X. 



False guides. Very difficult travelling. Donkey dies of tsetse bites. 

 The Kasonso family. A hospitable chief. The Eiver Lofu. The nut- 

 meg tree. Famine. 111. Arrives at Chama's town. A difficulty. 

 An immense snake. Account of Casembe's death. The flowers of the 

 Babisa country. Reaches the River Lopoposi. Arrives at Chitunku^'s. 

 Terrible marching. The Doctor is borne through the flooded country. 



1st November, 1872. — We hear that an eruption of Babemba, 

 on the Baulungu, destroyed all the food. We tried to buy- 

 food here, but everything is hidden in the mountains, so 

 we have to wait to-day till they fetch it. If in time, we 

 shall make an afternoon's march. Baining to-day. The 

 Biver Mulu from Chingolao gave us much trouble in 

 crossing from being filled with vegetation: it goes into 

 Tanganyika. Our course south and east. 



2nd November. — Deceived by a guide, who probably 

 feared his countrymen in front. Went round a stony cape, 

 and then to a land-locked harbour, three miles long by two 

 broad. Here was a stockade, where our guide absconded. 

 They told us that if we continued our march we should not 

 get water for four hours, so we rested, having marched four 

 and a quarter hours. 



Srd November. — We marched this morning to a village 

 where food was reported. I had to punish two useless 

 men for calling out, " Posho ! posho ! posho !" (rations) as 

 soon as I came near. One is a confirmed bange-smoker ; * 



* Bange or hemp in time produces partial idiotcy if smoked in excess. 

 It is used amongst all the Interior tribes. 



