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the Kutau, which falls into the Lungeungo, a tributary of the 
Zambesi. 
For some time back I have been travelling almost entirely on 
foot, as my riding-ox is quite done up for want of grass, which 
the frost by night and the sun by day have withered to tinder 
Walking fifteen miles a day through deep sand and under a 
hot sun is not easy work, and on hearing of it Senhor Porto was 
quite angry, saying that I should surely be ill after it ; so between 
us we rigged up a hammock, and he has given me four of his 
own men to carry it. To-day I enjoyed my hammock ride 
amazingly. 
26th. — At Kambuti. This is the first place where I have seen 
the domestic pig in native territory. 
2']th. — Reached the Kansambe River, and camped at Brutwe, 
The Kansambe is a small river running east^ not west, as Serpa 
Pinto has it in his map ; it joins the Kuango on its western side, 
which runs parallel with the Kutau into the Lungeungo. 
22>fh. — Crossed a high range of hills, and camped by the Kam- 
bimbia, flowing west ; its waters go by the Nyonga and Kuito to 
the Okovango river, which flows into Lake Ngami. 
2^th. — Crossing the Nyonga river we camped on the right- 
hand bank of the Bembe river. 
NATURAL AFFECTION. 
June ^oth. — Crossed the Kuito river. The Balojashe are not 
found further west j they belong to the Ambuella race, which is 
the same as the Bambunda, their language being merely a 
diflerent dialect. Like all hill-men, they are wild and trouble- 
some, continually roving about. Among themselves, however, 
these natives are very playful and childlike, and seem very 
fond of one another. Many of the Bachibokwe live amongst 
them, but do not wander much from home like the hill-people. 
Some who had been a short distance away, and had travelled in 
our company, seemed to be quite overcome with joy at getting 
home again. Their friends were not satisfied with merely em- 
bracing them, but caressed them in the most affectionate manner. 
It reminded me of the conduct of a poor Masaroa woman, who 
with her husband and baby had been captured by a company of 
raiding Matabele. Her Httle boy of ten had escaped in the fray, 
