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smooth, rocky tops, and we crossed over broad dykes of gneiss 

 and syenitic porphyry running N. and S. As we were now 

 approaching Tete, we were beginning to congratulate our- 

 selves on our successful progress, when we found ourselves 

 pursued by a party who threatened to send information to 

 Katolosa, the chief of that district, that we were passing 

 through his country without leave. We were obliged to give 

 them two small tusks, for, had they told Katolosa, we should in 

 all probability have lost the whole. We then went through a 

 very rough stony country without any path. On the evening 

 of the 2nd of March I halted about eight miles from Tete, 

 feeling too fatigued to proceed, and sent forward to the Com- 

 mandant the letters of recommendation with which I had been 

 favoured in Angola by the bishop and others. About two 

 o'clock in the morning of the 3rd we were aroused by two 

 officers and a company of soldiers, who had been sent with 

 the materials for a civilized breakfast and a " masheela " to 

 bring me to Tete. My companions called me in alarm, 

 thinking that we were captured by the aimed men. When I 

 understood the errand on which they had come, and had 

 partaken of a good breakfast, all my fatigue vanished, though 

 I had just before been too tired to sleep. It was the most 

 refreshing breakfast I ever partook of, and I walked the last 

 eight miles without the least feeling of weariness, although 

 the path was so rough that one of the officers remarked to me, 

 " This is enough to tear a man's life out of him." 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



Notices of Tete and its vicinity. — Productions. 



I was most kindly received by the Commandant, who did 

 everything in his power to restore me from my emaciated 

 condition, and invited me to remain with him until the follow- 

 ing month, as this was the unhealthy period at Kilimane. lie 

 also generously presented my men with abundant provisions 

 of millet ; and gave them lodgings in a house of his own, 



