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running strongly waist and breast deep, above thirty feet 

 broad here, but very much broader below. After this we 

 passed two more rills and the River Methoniia, but we build 

 a camp above our former one. The human ticks called 

 " papasi " by the Suaheli, and " karapatos " by the Portu- 

 guese, made even the natives call out against their numbers 

 and ferocity. 



10th February. — Back again to our old camp on the Lovu 

 or Lofu by the bridge. We left in a drizzle, which continued 

 from 4 A.M. to 1 p.m. We were three hours in it, and all 

 wetted, just on reaching camp by 200 yards, of flood mid- 

 deep ; but we have food. 



11th February. — Our guides took us across country, where 

 we saw tracks of buffaloes, and in a meadow, the head of a 

 •sponge, we saw a herd of Hartebeests. A drizzly night was 

 followed by a morning of cold wet fog, but in three hours we 

 reached our old camp : it took us six hours to do this 

 distance before, and five on our return. We camped on 

 a deep bridged stream, called the Kiachibwe. 



11th February. — We crossed the Kasoso, which joins the 

 Mokisya, a river we afterwards crossed : it flows N.W., then 

 over the Mofungwe. The same sponges everywhere. 



13th February. — In four hours we came within sight of the 

 Luena and Lake, and saw plenty of elephants and other game, 

 but very shy. The forest trees are larger. The guides are 

 more at a loss than we are, as they always go in canoes in the 

 flat rivers and rivulets. Went E., then S.E. round to S. 



14th February. — Public punishment to Chirango for steal- 

 ing beads, fifteen cuts ; diminished his load to 40 lbs., giving 

 him blue and white beads to be strung. The water stands so 

 high in the paths that I cannot walk dryshod, and I found 

 in the large bougas or prairies in front, that it lay knee 

 deep, so I sent on two men to go to the first villages of 

 Matipa for large canoes to navigate the Lake, or give us a 

 guide to go east to the Chambeze, to go round on foot. It 



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