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crossed the third arm of the Lelongwe, and then the 

 reedy bed of a spruit, where we dug in the sand and 

 found plenty of nice mineral-tasted water, which the 

 men and dogs drank. Reached the site of an old 

 kraal, Intembini, about noon. Hendrik calls these 

 people ' maholis ' (vassals). They are far easier to 

 deal with than the Matabele, take what you give 

 them and are satisfied. They asked for red, but took 

 blue beads, and were delighted with red with white 

 stripe. Stopped to rest at 1.15, and made another 

 trek before night, finally stopping about 6 p.m. near 

 a rather large river, with heavy sand in its bed. 



" October gtk. — Overcast, delicious day. Started 

 at 7 a.m., and about 9 crossed the Tchangani — the 

 largest river we have yet seen since leaving Inyati 

 — and outspanned, continuing the journey in the 

 afternoon for about three hours. This last trek 

 was a very pleasant one, over falling ground. As 

 we outspanned (about 4 p.m.), John 1 told me that a 

 'honey's (bees') nest' had been found by Hendrik. 

 The boys went off, and it was found in the hollow 

 trunk of a large tree, into which the bees went by a 

 hole in the side of the tree. They put fire into the 

 hole, having kindled a small one close to the tree, 

 and then with an axe cut open the trunk. The bees 

 seemed on the whole pretty quiet, and I don't think 

 their sting can be bad, as the men seemed tolerably 

 indifferent. The cells, when taken out, proved full 

 of grubs. . . . One of the boys was carrying two 

 squirrels killed by a dog ; another had found roots. 



1 The interpreter from Graham's Town above alluded to. 



