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dangao. A male Msobe had faint white stripes across the 

 back and one well-marked yellow stripe along the spine. 

 The hip had a few faint white spots, which showed by 

 having longer hair than the rest ; a kid of the same species 

 had a white belly. 



The eight men came from Motovinza this afternoon, and 

 now all our party is united. The donkey shows many sores 

 inflicted by the careless people, who think that force alone 

 can be used to inferior animals. 



11 th March. — Matipa says " Wait ; Kabinga is coming, and 

 he has canoes." Time is of no value to him. His wife is 

 making him pombe, and will drown all his cares, but mine 

 increase and plague me. Matipa and his wife each sent me 

 a huge calabash of pombe ; I wanted only a little to make 

 bread with. 



By putting leaven in a bottle and keeping it from one 

 baking to another (or three days) good bread is made, and 

 the dough being surrounded by banana leaves or maize 

 leaves (or even forest leaves of hard texture and no taste, or 

 simply by broad leafy grass), is preserved from burning in 

 an iron pot. The inside of the pot is greased, then the 

 leaves put in all round, and the dough poured in to stand 

 and rise in the sun. 



Better news comes : the son of Kabinga is to be here 

 to-night, and we shall concoct plans together. 



12th March. — The news was false, no one came from 

 Kabinga. The men strung beads to-day, and I wrote part 

 of my despatch for Earl Granville. 



loth March. — -I went to Matipa, and proposed to begin the 

 embarkation of my men at once, as they are many, and the 

 canoes are only sufficient to take a few at a time. He has 

 sent off a big canoe to reap his millet, when it returns he 

 will send us over to see for ourselves where we can go. I 

 explained the danger of setting my men astray. 



lAth March. — Bains have ceased for a few days. Went 



