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to whom he prayed. Katema asked if I could not make 

 a dress for him like the one I wore, so that he might appear 

 as a white man when any stranger visited him. One of 

 the councillors, imagining that he ought to second tins 

 by begging, Katema checked him by saying, " Whatever 

 strangers give, be it little or much, I always receive it 

 with thankfulness, and never trouble them for more.'* 

 On departing, he mounted on the shoulders of his spokes- 

 man, as the most dignified mode of retiring. The spokes- 

 man being a slender man, and the chief six feet high, and 

 stout in proportion, there would have been a breakdown,, 

 had he not been accustomed to it. We were very mucli 

 pleased with Katema ; and next day he presented us 

 with a cow, that we might enjoy the abundant supplies 

 of meat he had given with good animal food. He then 

 departed for the hunting-ground, after assuring me that 

 the town and everything in it were mine, and that his 

 factotum, Shakatwala, would remain and attend to every 

 want, and also conduct us to the Leeba. 



On attempting to slaughter the cow Katema had given,, 

 we found the herd as wild as buffaloes ; and one of my 

 men having only wounded it, they fled many miles into 

 the forest, and were with great difficulty brought back. 

 Bven the herdsman was afraid to go near them. The 

 majority of them were white, and they were all beautiful 

 animals. After hunting it for two days, it was despatched 

 at last by another ball. Here we saw a flock of jack- 

 daws, a rare sight in Londa, busy with the grubs in the 

 valley, which are eaten by the people too. 



Leaving Katema's town on the 19th, and proceeding; 

 four miles to the eastward, we forded the southern 

 branch of Lake Dilolo. We found it a mile and a quarter 

 broad ; and as it flows into the Lotembwa, the lake would 

 seem to be a drain of the surrounding flats, and to partake 

 of the character of a fountain. The ford was waist- 

 deep, and very difficult, from the masses of arum and 

 rushes through which we waded. Going to the eastward, 

 about three miles, we came to the Southern Lotembwa 

 itself, running in a valley two miles broad. It is here 

 eighty or ninety yards wide, and contains numerous 

 islands covered with dense sylvan vegetation. In the 

 rainy season the valley is flooded, and as the waters dry- 

 up, great multitudes of fish are caught. This happens 

 very extensively over the country, and fishing-weirs are 



