250 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. X. 



dotis. One of our men is behind, sick with dysentery. I am 

 obliged to leave him, but have sent for him twice, and have 

 given him cloth and Jbeads. 



21th November. — Left Kampamba's to-day, and cross a 

 meadow S.E. of the village in which the River Muanani rises. 

 It flows into the Kapondosi and so on to the Lake. We made 

 good way with Kiteneka as our guide, who formerly accom- 

 panied Kampamba and ourselves to Liemba. We went over 

 a flat country once covered with trees, but now these have all 

 been cut down, say 4 to 5 feet from the ground, most likely 

 for clearing, as the reddish soil is very fertile. Long lines 

 of hills of denudation are in the distance, all directed to the 

 Lake. 



We came at last to Kasonso's successor's village on the 

 River Molulwe, which is, say, thirty yards wide, and thigh 

 deep. It goes to the Lofu. The chief here gave a sheep — 

 a welcome present, for I was out of flesh for four days. 

 Kampamba is stingy as compared with his father. 



25th November. — We came in an hour's march to a rivulet 

 called the Casembe — the departed Kasonso lived here. The 

 stream is very deep, and flows slowly to the Lofu. Our 

 path lay through much pollarded forest, troublesome to 

 walk in, as the stumps send out leafy shoots. 



2&h November. — Started at daybreak. The grass was loaded 

 with dew, and a heavy mist hung over everything. Passed 

 two villages of people come out to cultivate this very fertile 

 soil, which they manure by burning branches of trees. The 

 Rivulet Loela flows here, and is also a tributary of the Lofu. 



27th November. — As it is Sunday we stay here at N'clari's 

 village, for we shall be in an uninhabited track to-morrow, 

 beyond the Lofu. The headman cooked six messes for us 

 and begged us to remain for more food, which we buy. He 

 gave us a handsome present of flour and a fowl, for which 

 I return him a present of a doti. Very heavy rain and high 

 gusts of wind, which wet us all. 



