446 KATEMA'S HOSPITALITY. 



Our progress had always been slow, and I found that 

 our rate of travelling could only be five hours a-day for 

 five successive days. On the sixth, both mSi and oxen 

 showed symptoms of knocking up. We never exceeded 

 two and a half, or three miles an hour in a straight line, 

 though all were anxious to get home. The difference in 

 the rate of travelling between ourselves and the slave- 

 traders, was our having a rather quicker step, a longer 

 day's journey, and twenty travelling days a-month instead 

 of their ten. When one of my men became ill, but still 

 could walk, others parted his luggage among them ; yet 

 we had often to stop one day a-week, besides Sundays, 

 simply for the sake of rest. The latitude of Iyake Dilolo 

 is n° 32' 1" S., long. 22 27' K. 



June 14th. — We reached the collection of straggling 

 villages over which Katema rules, and were thankful 

 to see old familiar faces again. Shakatwala performed 

 the part of a chief, by bringing forth abundant supplies 

 of food in his master's name. He informed us that 

 Katema, too, was out, hunting skins for Matiamvo. 



In different parts of this country, we remarked that 

 when old friends were inquired for, the reply was, " Ba 

 hola — they are getting better ; " or if the people of a 

 village were inquired for, the answer was, " They are 

 recovering," as if sickness was quite a common thing. 

 Indeed, many with whom we had made acquaintance 

 in going north, we now found were in their graves. On 

 the 15th, Katema came home from his hunting, having 

 heard of our arrival. He desired me to rest myself and 

 eat abundantly, for, being a great man, I must feel tired ; 

 and he took good care to give the means of doing so. All 

 the people in these parts are extremely kind and liberal 

 with their food, and Katema was not behindhand. When 

 he visited our encampment, I presented him with a cloak 

 of red baize, ornamented with gold tinsel, which cost 

 thirty shillings, according to the promise I had made in 

 going to Iyoanda ; also a cotton robe, both large and 

 small beads, an iron spoon, and a tin pannikin containing 

 a quarter of a pound of powder. He seemed greatly 

 pleased with the liberality shown, and assured me that 

 the way was mine, and that no one should molest me 

 in it, if he could help it. We were informed by Shakat- 

 wala that the chief never used any part of a present, before 

 making an offer of it to his mother, or the departed spirit 



