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49. Page 216, /. 29. — Katema lived on in the same district for thirty 

 years after Livingstone visited him. From being ruler over the Balubale. 

 he was reduced to being tributary to them. Then purely for the sake of 

 carrying off his Lunda subjects as slaves, the Balubale drove out Kazembe 

 and, it is reported, killed him as he fled to the Barotse for protection. 

 I knew him well, and had many talks with him about Dr. Living- 

 stone, "the first white man." 



50. Page 219, /. 17. — Commander Cameron discovered the Lulua, and 

 found that it flowed north to the Kassai and Congo, and not south to the 

 Zambesi as was reported to Dr. Livingstone. 



51. Page 222, /. 20. — The ant builds up the stalk of grass as the flood 

 rises, which of course washes away the lower stories of the little towers of 

 Babel, leaving the ant with a sort of a bird-nest house to live in. 



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52. Page 228, /. 10. — The Bachibokwe, or Ba-chioko, are perhaps the 

 most remarkable and most interesting tribe to be met with in the whole of 

 West Central Africa. They work cleverly in iron and wood, farm the 

 bee, and procure large quantities of beeswax ; they have discovered a 

 root yielding rubber that now commands a higher price than the tree 

 rubber. At the same time, their capacity for giving trouble to passing 

 traders and travellers is so well known that their name is a proverb. 



53. Page 238, /. 39. — This year (1899) Mr. F. Schindler made a pro- 

 longed excursion among the Bachibokwe, hoping to find an opening 

 among them for mission work. Were his diary to be put alongside of Dr. 

 Livingstone's, written forty years before, it would be seen that these 

 troublesome people have not altered one iota in their methods of worry 

 and extortion. At last, however, Mr. Schindler seemed to find a friend 

 among them ; a chief came forward to assist in tracking and punishing a 

 thief who had stolen a few beads. The man was brought to book, and 

 the beads restored after endless litigation more annoying than the theft 

 itself ; then, to crown all, Mr. Schindler had to pay his good friend the 

 chief in cloth two or three times the value of the beads as his well-earned 

 fees ! 



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54. Page 267, /. 3. — The description here given of Loanda is of course 

 only of value in so far as it is a description of how things were forty years 

 ago. To-day Portuguese, English, French, and German steamers call 

 nearly every week at Loanda ; the town, too, has been largely rebuilt, the 

 streets cleared of sand, and a water supply is abundant. The Portuguese 

 fail as farmers and employers of free labour, but Loanda compares favour- 

 ably with any other town between Gibraltar and Cape Town. 



55. Page 273, /. 28. — The Dutch occupied Loanda for a very short time. 



