2G0 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOUENALS. [Chap. X. 



21th December. — Leave the villages on the Lofubu. A 

 cascade comes down on our left. The country undulating 

 deeply, the hills, rising at times 300 to 400 feet, are covered 

 with stunted wood. .There is much of the common bracken 

 fern and hart's-tongue. We cross one rivulet running to 

 the Lofubu, and camp by a blacksmith's rill in the jungle. 

 No rain fell to-day for a wonder, but the lower tier of clouds 

 still drifts past from N.W. 



I killed a Naia Hadje snake seven feet long here, he 

 reared up before me and turned to fight. The under north- 

 west stratum of clouds is composed of fluffy cottony masses, 

 the edges spread out as if on an electrical machine — the 

 upper or south-east is of broad fields like striated cat's hair. 

 The N.W. flies quickly, the S.E. slowly away where the 

 others come from. No observations have been possible 

 through most of this month. People assert that the new 

 moon will bring drier weather, and the clouds are pre- 

 paring to change the N.W. lower stratum into S.E., ditto, 

 ditto, and the N.W. will be the upper tier. 



A man, ill and unable to come on, was left all night 

 in the rain, without fire. We sent men back to carry him. 

 Wet and cold. We are evidently ascending as we come near 

 the Chambeze. The N.E. clouds came up this morning to 

 jneet the N.W. and thence the S.E. came across as if com- 

 bating the N.W. So as the new moon comes soon, it may 

 be a real change to drier weather. 



4 p.m. — The man carried in here is very ill ; we must carry 

 him to-morrow. 



29th December. — Our man Chipangawazi died last night 

 and was buried this morning. He was a quiet good man, 

 his disease began at Kampamba's. New moon last night. 



29th, or 1st January, 1873. — I am wrong two days. 



29th December. — After the burial and planting four 

 branches of Moririga at the corners of the grave we went on 

 southwards 3 j hours to a river, the Luongo, running strongly 



