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of by the natives as a land of plenty. The 
climate no where could be said to be salubri- 
ous, fever being every where prevalent, and 
this, even amongst the natives, is often very 
fatal. 
Of this fever Dr. Livingstone had eight at- 
tacks, the last very severe. He says, speaking 
of this in one of his letters, " I never laid by. 
I tried native remedies, in order to discover 
if they possessed any valuable means of cure ; 
but after being stewed in vapour baths, smoked 
like a red herring, over fires of green twigs in 
hot potsherds, and physicked secundum Hack 
artem, I believe that our own medicines are 
more efficacious and safer. I have not relin- 
quished the search, and as I make it a rule to 
keep on good terms with my professional bre- 
thren, I am not without hope, that some of 
their means of re-establishing the secretions 
(and to this, indeed, all their efforts are direc- 
ted) may be well adapted for this complaint." 
The accurate geographical position of this 
river, its junction with the Leeba, as well as 
the course, tributaries, and their sources of this 
latter, have all been furnished, by this enter- 
prizing traveller, to the Eoyal Geographical So- 
ciety, and are now determined and laid down 
in their new and valuable maps of this conti- 
nent. The only point to cause regret, is the 
