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west and south to the Luapnla, then after one hour crossed 

 it, twelve yards wide and Avaist deep. We met a man with 

 four of his kindred stripping off bark to make bark-cloth : 

 he gives me the above information about the Luongo. 



1st January, 1873. (30^.) — Came on at 6 a.m. very cold. 

 The rains have ceased for a time. Arrive at the village of 

 the man who met us yesterday. As we have been unable to 

 buy food, through the illness and death of Chipangawazi, I 

 camp here. 



2nd January. — Thursday — Wednesday was the 1st, I was 

 two days wrong. 



3rd January. — The villagers very anxious to take us to 

 the west to Chikumbi's, but I refused to follow them, and 

 we made our course to the Luongo. Went into the forest 

 south without a path for 1£ hour, then through a flat forest, 

 much fern and no game. We camped in the forest at the 

 Situngula Eivulet. A little quiet rain through the night. 

 A damp climate this — lichens on all the trees, even on those 

 of 2 inches diameter. Our last cow died of injuries received 

 in crossing the Lofubu. People buy it for food, so it is not 

 an entire loss. 



4:th January. — March south one hour to the Lopoposi or 

 Lopopozi stream of 25 or 30 feet, and now breast deep, 

 flowing fast southwards to join the Chambeze. Camped at 

 Ketebe's at 2 p.m. on the Rivulet Kizima after very heavy 

 rain. 



5th January. — A woman of our party is very ill ; she will 

 require to be carried to-morrow. 



6th January. — Ketebe or Kapesha very civil and generous. 

 He sent three men to guide us to his elder brother 

 Chungu. The men drum and sing harshly for him con- 

 tinually. I gave him half-a-pound of powder, and he lay 

 on his back rolling and clapping his hands, and all his 

 men lulliloed; then he turned on his front, and did the 

 same. The men are very timid — no wonder, the Arab 

 slaves do as they choose with them. The women burst out 



