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waited for him. Matlangwani, who had gone on 

 alone, presently returned, having shot two rhinoceros, 

 and we all went to the place and camped there. 



" December ^oth. — Cloudy ; a shower in the after- 

 noon. Walked ten miles to-day, crossing at least 

 two sandbelts, the last of which was stony, and 

 with a very thin stratum of soil on it ; the trees few 

 and sparsely scattered. Some dry stony spruits 

 here, and a fine view of the opposite sandbelt. Slept 

 at a spruit in the hollow beneath us, where we had 

 stopped to make tea in the afternoon, but where 

 it looked so threatening we had pitched the tent. 

 However, the rain was trifling. Some of Tibakai's 

 Bushmen were seen and talked to. Whilst the boys 

 were making the huts they pointed out the cloud on 

 the horizon to the northward from Metsi-a-tunya. It 

 keeps rising in a white puff, and passing away in little 

 fleecy clouds. The others heard the Falls ; I am 

 not sure I did. 



"December 31st. — Rather cloudy; heavy rain 

 about sundown. Fine night. Went, roughly, say 

 three miles farther north across turf, to the river 

 where I thought Tibakai was encamped, but found we 

 were too much to the left, so after crossing the river 

 kept down it about three-quarters of a mile to his camp. 

 John was in front, hurrying on with one of his boys, 

 but when he came near the huts, stopped and hid 

 behind a bush, from which he was peering when we 

 joined him. Here he wanted to stay and send for Tiba- 

 kai to talk, our object being to get two Bushmen from 

 him to go with us to the Zambesi for corn. I ordered 



