146 JUJUBE — TSETSE. Chap. VI. 



CHAPTEE VI. 



Illness — The Honey-guide— Abundance of game — The Baenda 

 pezi — The Batoka. 



We left the river here, and proceeded up the valley which 

 leads to the Mburuma or Mohango pass. The nights were 

 cold, and on the 30th of June the thermometer was as low 

 as 39° at sunrise. We passed through a village of twenty- 

 large huts, which Sequasha had attacked on his return 

 from the murder of the chief, Mpangwe. He caught the 

 women and children for slaves, and carried off all the 

 food, except a huge basket of bran, which the natives are 

 wont to save against a time of famine. His slaves had 

 broken all the water-pots and the millstones for grinding 

 meal. 



The buaze-trees and bamboos are now seen on the hills ; 

 but the jujube or zisyphus, which has evidently been in- 

 troduced from India, extends no further up the river. We 

 had been eating this fruit, which, having somewhat the 

 taste of apples, the Portuguese call Macaas, all the way 

 from Tette ; and here they were larger than usual, though 

 immediately beyond they ceased to be found. No mango- 

 tree either is to be met with beyond this point, because 

 the Portuguese traders never established themselves any- 

 where beyond Zumbo. Tsetse flies are more numerous 

 and troublesome than we have ever before found them. 

 They accompany us on the march, often buzzing round 



