962 , LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



" 5th. There was nothing for breakfast but coffee and a few small bis- 

 cuits, so after making the most of these, we started about seven o'clock. The 

 road lay through the same park-like forest as before; indeed, so like an Eng- 

 lish park was some of it, that I should scarcely have been surprised if, on 

 turning a corner, I had seen a large house and well kept garden. After a 

 two and a half hours' march we arrived at Rosako, distant eight miles from 

 our last camp. Here we encamped, and the news soon spread that a Musungu 

 caravan had arrived ; and the chief of the village sent a sheep to know if we 

 would buy it, which we did for two dollars. Soon after, this official appeared 

 in person, bringing us a present of bananas, half of which, however, turned 

 out to be bad. He then said that there were plenty of giraffes and deer not 

 far off, and that he would send a guide to show us where to find them. Then 

 he told us that he must have sixteen pice more for the sheep, which were 

 given him. When the guide came we set off to look for the promised game, 

 but, after wading four miles through tall grass, we returned without having 

 seen anything bigger than a rat. Not feeling well — the result, I think, of 

 the march on an empty stomach — I took a good dose of quinine and went to 

 bed early, and this set me to rights. During the evening we had rain. 



"Sunday, 6th. To-day we rested. The men would have gone on, but 

 we explained to them what the day was. Soon after breakfast the chief of 

 the village came down, bringing us a present of a yam, telling us he had a 

 bag of Matama (millet) to sell, so, as we had found we had not food enough 

 for the men, we said we would go and see it. The village was a mile from 

 our camp, and was clean and very pretty ; the little children ran screaming 

 away as soon as we appeared. The matama was brought, and we agreed 

 to buy it, and also a bag of rice. The matama we brought with us; the 

 rice was not quite ready, so we left a man to bring it. In conse- 

 quence of a dispute about the bargain, the chief at first refused to send 

 it; but having despatched thirty of our men to bring it down, in half an 

 hour they returned with it in triumph. During the morning an ivory cara- 

 van passed ou its way to the coast. 



"7th. About half past six we were off again. The road was still 

 through forest, with much denser jungle, the path often being only a foot 

 wide, with a thick wall of vegetation on both sides. Stanley speaks of hav- 

 ing had considerable trouble here with his donkey cart ; but the wonder is 

 how he ever got it through at all, if the jungle was then in the least like what 

 it was when we passed. Here we encountered the first rock I have seen 

 since leaving the coast — a yellow sandy limestone. Tho Udoe hills appeared 

 to-day to the westward of us. I caught a glimpse of them through the trees 

 on the top of the highest ridge we crossed. After a march of four hours we 

 encamped at a place called Pasakwanani, ten miles from Rosako — the long- 

 est march we have yet made. A little way before it we passed some fields, 



