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blue flowering - bulbs, and new flowers of pretty delicate form 

 and but little scent. To this list may be added balsams, 

 composite of blood-red colour and of purple ; other flowers 

 .of liver colour, bright canary yellow, pink orchids on spikes 

 thickly covered all round, and of three inches in length ; 

 spiderworts of fine blue or yellow or even pink. Different 

 coloured asclepedials ; beautiful yellow and red umbelliferous 

 flowering plants ; dill and wild parsnips ; pretty flowery aloes, 

 yellow and red, in one whorl of blossoms ; peas, and many 

 other flowering plants which I do not know. Very few 

 birds or any kind of game. The people are Babisa, who 

 have fled from the west and are busy catching fish in basket 

 traps. 



15th January. — Found that Chungu had let us go astray 

 towards the Lake, and into an angle formed by the Mpande 

 and Lopopussi, and the Lake-full of rivulets which are crossed 

 with canoes. Chisupa, a headman on the other side of the 

 Mpanda, sent a present and denounced Chungu for heartless- 

 ness. We explained to one man our change of route and 

 went first N.B., then E. to the Monsinga, which we forded 

 again at a deep place full of holes and rust-of-iron water, in 

 which we floundered over 300 yards. We crossed a sponge 

 thigh deep before we came to the Mosinga, then on in flat 

 forest to a stockaded village ; the whole march about east 

 for six hours. 



16th January. — Away north-east and north to get out 

 of the many rivulets near the Lake back to the River 

 Lopopussi, which now looms large, and must be crossed in 

 canoes. We have to wait in a village till these are brought, 

 and have only got If hour nearly north. 



We were treated scurvily by Chungu. He knew that we 

 were near the Chambeze, but hid the knowledge and himself 

 too. It is terror of guns. 



17th January. — We are troubled for want of canoes, but 

 have to treat gently with the owners, otherwise they would 



