640 LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



other things that the Lualaba fell into it ; but now, in addition, two men, 

 belonging to the district in which Tipo-tipo's camp was situated, assured 

 him that they had been there, and gave the name as Sankorra ; and also 

 mentioned a small lake called Iki, situated on the River Luwembi, just to the 

 west of the Lomami. 



After some consideration, our traveller determined to go with Tipo-tipo 

 to his camp, and thence march to Sankorra, and trust to getting boats from 

 the trouser-wearing traders who, he hoped, would prove to be half-caste 

 Portuguese from Cassanci, or thereabouts. They therefore left Nyangwe, 

 and camped in a village of Wagenya, on the left bank of the Lualaba. The 

 left bank of the Lualaba is low and swampy, with many semi-stagnant back- 

 waters, which render it a very hotbed of fever, whilst the right bank is raised 

 and healthy. When the traveller had got his men and stores together, and 

 ready for the road, he found himself suffering from a heavy attack of fever, 

 the effect of one night's exposure to the malaria. He managed, however, 

 to struggle on for a long march, which, including an hour's halt, lasted from 

 half -past twelve at noon to between seven and eight in the evening, although, 

 for the greater part of the time, he was reeling about like a drunken man, 

 from fever and weakness. For the last hour or so the path led through tracts 

 covered with gigantic pyramidal ant-hills, which, in the partial delirium of 

 fever, he kept on mistaking for his tent. When at last they encamped, he 

 was so exhausted, that he was obliged to turn in at once without being able 

 to eat a morsel of food. 



Feeling somewhat better the next morning he was able to proceed on 

 the journey, and every succeeding day he grew stronger. When they were 

 about half-way to Tipo-tipo's camp, they halted for a couple of days at Rus- 

 suna's village ; but just as they came near to it, a quarrel took place between 

 some of the Wamerima from Nyangwe and the natives, which resulted in 

 the death of two natives. The consequences of this might have been most 

 serious, had not Tipo-tipo possessed influence enough to restore peace as 

 soon as he heard of the affair, and compelled the Nyangwe people to pay 

 something to the chief. During the two days our traveller stayed at Russuna's 

 he was an object of the most intense interest to that chief's wives, who would 

 scarcely let him have one moment to himself, and kept on turning up the 

 legs of his pyjamas, to see if he were really white all over ; in fact, he had to 

 use a certain amount of restraint to prevent them from undressing him alto- 

 gether. All these wives of Russuna, about forty or fifty in number, live to- 

 gether in a small village, formed of two rows of huts, with one hut in the 

 middle for himself and his mother, on whom devolves the task of keeping 

 the harem. Many of the wives were really very good-looking, and, like 

 many other ladies, seemed quite sensible of their charms. 



After two days' rest at Russana's, they resumed their journey to Tipo- 



