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internal fat found in them makes them much prized by 

 the inhabitants, who are all very fond of it, both for food 

 and ointment. 



After leaving the elephant valley, we passed through a 

 very beautiful country, but thinly inhabited by man. 

 The underlying rock is trap, and dykes of talcose gneiss. 

 The trap is often seen tilted on its edge, or dipping a little 

 either to the north or south. The strike is generally to 

 the N.B., the direction we are going. About I^osito we 

 found the trap had given place to hornblende schist, mica 

 schist, and various schorly rocks. We had now come 

 into the region, in which the appearance of the rocks, 

 conveys the impression of a great force having acted along 

 the bed of the Zambesi. Indeed I was led to the belief 

 from seeing the manner in which the rocks have been 

 thrust away on both sides from its bed, that the power 

 which formed the crack of the falls, had given direction 

 to the river below, and opened a bed for it all the way 

 from the falls to beyond the gorge of L,upata. 



Passing the rivulet I,osito, and through the ranges of 

 hills, we reached the residence of Semalembue on the 

 1 8 th. His village is situated at the bottom of ranges 

 through which the Kafue finds a passage, and close to 

 the bank of that river. The Kafue, sometimes called 

 Kahowhe, or Bashukulompo river, is upwards of 200 

 yards wide here, and full of hippopotami, the young of 

 which may be seen perched on the necks of their dams. 

 At this point we had reached about the same level as- 

 Ivinyanti. 



Semalembue paid us a visit soon after our arrival, and 

 said that he had often heard of me, and now that he had 

 the pleasure of seeing me, he feared that I should sleep 

 the first night at his village hungry. This was considered 

 the handsome way of introducing a present, for he then 

 handed five or six baskets of meal and maize, and an 

 enormous one of ground-nuts. Next morning he gave 

 about twenty baskets more of meal. I could make but 

 a poor return for his kindness, but he accepted my apolo- 

 gies politely, saying that he knew there were no goods in 

 the country from which I had come, and, in professing 

 great joy at the words of peace I spoke, he said, " Now 

 I shall cultivate largely, in the hope of eating and sleeping 

 in peace." It is noticeable that all whom we have yet 

 met, eagerly caught up the idea of living in peace as the 



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