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I met some of the Balovale before at the Barotse, and I retam 
the opinion first formed of them — that they are a race of ex- 
ceptionally manly-looking people. Much of their language I 
understand, it being of the pure Bantu stock. They cultivate 
manioc and massanga (birdseed) largely, and are rich in domestic 
animals — oxen, goats, and pigs. 
THE KIFUMADSHE FLAT. 
Between the Quanza and Peho the population is very scanty, 
and food is scarce ; cartridges seem to be the currency most in 
use. After Peho is passed, food begins to be more plentiful. 
Salt and cartridges are about the only things asked for, but I 
managed to buy all I needed with cloth and dried fish, brought 
with me from the Quanza. 
I am now within three days of the Kifumadshe Lake. 
Though it is not the dry season, my journey has been most en- 
joyable. I rejoice in this opportunity of again testifying to our 
Lord's keeping, providing care, and to the justness of His 
reproaches when He said to His disciples who had embarked 
with Him, " Why reason ye because ye have no bread ? Do 
ye not yet perceive, neither understand? have ye your heart 
hardened? . . . When I brake the five loaves among the five 
thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces took ye up? 
... Do ye not yet understand ? " 
December 6th. — To-day I encountered the caravan I was ex- 
pecting, the leader of which, a son of Chipongi, chief of Bihe, 
took charge of my letters. I also heard of a caravan of Garen- 
ganze men being at the Lumese river ; they have got into trouble 
with the natives, and have had some of their ivory taken from 
them. Camped in the evening by a small lake called Kalundu. 
'jth. — My men crying out for more rations, and won't go on. 
^th. — The Garenganze caravan has passed my camp. Their 
leader said some of his men were afraid to go on to Bihe, and 
wanted to return with me. 
11th. — By this date we had crossed the Lumese River, and 
reached the edge of the Kifumadshe Flat (there is no lake as 
marked in the map). The river of this name rises in the centre 
of a flat, flooded and impassable from January to April or May ; 
it could not even be called a marsh, as the ground here is sandy 
