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LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. 



[Chap. XL 



to our number, but lie complains of their being stolen by 

 rebel subjects. He tells me bis brother Kabinga would have 

 been here some clays ago but for having lost a son, who 

 was killed by an elephant : he is mourning for him but will 

 come soon. Kabinga is on the other side of the Chambeze. 

 A party of male and female drummers and dancers is sure 

 to turn up at every village ; the first here had a leader 

 that used such violent antics perspiration ran off his whole 



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Dr. Livingstone's Mosquito Curtain. 



frame. I gave a few strings of beads, and the perform- 

 ance is repeated to-day by another lot, but I rebel and 

 allow them to dance unheeded. We got a sheep for a 

 wonder for a doti; fowls and fish alone could be bought, 

 but Kabinga has plenty of cattle. 



There is a species of carp with red ventral fin, which 

 is caught and used in very large quantities : it is called 

 " pumbo." The people dry it over fires as preserved pro- 

 visions. Sampa is the largest fish in the Lake, it is caught 

 by a hook. The Luena goes into Bangweolo at Molan- 



