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ARRANGEMENTS FOR JOURNET8. 
wido diffusion of Christianity at some future time, are 
worth all the money and labor that have been expended 
to produce them. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
OR. LIYINOSTONE SETS OUT ON TIIE EXPEDITION TO THB 
WEST COAST. 
Linyanti, September, 1853. — The object proposed to the 
Makololo seemed so desirable that it was resolved to proceed 
with it as soon as the cooling influence of the rains should 
be felt in November. The longitude and latitude of Lin- 
yanti (lat. 18° 17' 20" S., long. 23° 50' 9" E.) showed that 
St. Philip de Benguola was much nearer to us than 
Loanda; and I might bavo easily made arrangements 
with the Mambari to allow mo to accompany them as far 
os Biho, which is on the road to that port; but it is so 
undosirablo to travel in a path onco trodden by slave- 
traders that I preferred to find out another line of march. 
Accordingly, men wero sent at my suggestion to examine 
all tho country to the west, to see il any belt of country 
free from tsetse could bo found to afford us an outlet. Tho 
search was fruitless. Tho town and district of Linyanti 
are surrounded by forests infested by this poisonous insect, 
except at a few points, as that by which wo ontorod at 
Sanshureh and another at Seshoke. But tho lands both 
east and west of tho Barotso valley are free from this 
insect- plague. There, however, the slavo-trado had defilod 
the path, and no one ought to follow in its wake unless 
well armed. The Mambari bad informod me that many 
English livod at Loanda; so / prepared to go thither. Tbs 
prospect of mooting with countrymen seemed to over- 
balance the toils of the longer march. 
