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said to have adopted this widespread mode of habitation, 

 in order to give alarm should any enemy appear. In 

 former times they lived in large towns. In the distance 

 (S.E.) we see ranges of dark mountains along the banks 

 of the Zambesi, and are told of the existence there of the 

 rapid named Kansala, which is said to impede the naviga- 

 tion. The river is reported to be placid above that as 

 far as the territory of Sinamane, a Batoka chief, who is 

 said to command it after it emerges smooth again below 

 the falls. Kansala is the only rapid reported in the 

 river until we come to Kebrabasa, twenty or thirty miles 

 above Tete. On the north, we have mountains appearing 

 above the horizon, which are said to be on the banks of 

 the Kafue. 



The chief Monze came to us on Sunday morning, wrapped 

 in a large cloth, and rolled himself about in the dust, 

 screaming " Kina bomba," as they all do. The sight of 

 great naked men wallowing on the ground, though 

 intended to do me honour, was always very painful ; it 

 macie me feel thankful that my lot had been cast in such 

 different circumstances from that of so many of my fellow- 

 men. One of his wives accompanied him ; she would 

 have been comely if her teeth had been spared ; she had a 

 little battle-axe in her hand, and helped her husband to 

 scream. She was much excited, for she had never seen 

 a white man before. We rather liked Monze, for he soon 

 felt at home amongst us, and kept up conversation during 

 much of the day. One head-man of a village after another 

 arrived, and each of them supplied us liberally with maize, 

 ground-nuts, and corn. Monze gave us a goat and a 

 fowl, and appeared highly satisfied with a present of some 

 handkerchiefs I had got in my supplies left at the island. 

 Being of printed cotton, they excited great admiration ; 

 and when I put a gaudy-coloured one as a shawl about his 

 child, he said that he would send for all his people to 

 make a dance about it. In telling them that my object 

 was to open up a path, whereby they might, by getting 

 merchandize for ivory, avoid the guilt of selling their 

 children, I asked Monze, with about 150 of his men, if 

 they would like a white man to live amongst them and 

 teach them. All expressed high satisfaction at the pro- 

 spect of the white man and his path : they would protect 

 both him and his property. I asked the question, 

 because it would be of great importance to have stations 



