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HIPPOPOTAMI. 
tho more hungry tho party boearao, tho moro frequently 1 
missed tho animals. 
Boforo wo camo to tho junction of tho Lcoba and 
Looambyo wo found tho banks twonty feet high, and com- 
posed of marly sandstono. Thoy aro covered with troos, 
and tho loft bank has tho tsotso and elephants. I suspoct 
tho fly has some connection with this animal, and tho 
Portuguese in tho district of Toto must think so too, for 
thoy call it tho Musca da elephant, (tho elephant-fly.) 
Wo passed great numbers of hippopotami. Thoy aro 
very numorous in tho parts of tho rivor whoro they aro 
never hunted. The males appear of a dark color, tho 
females of yellowish brown. There is not such a complete 
separation of tho sexes among thorn as among elephants 
They spend most of their timo in tho water, lolling about 
in a listless, dreamy mannor. When they como out of tho 
rivor by night, they crop off tho soft succulent grassos 
very noatly. When they blow, thoy puff up tho watoi 
about throo foot high. 
CHAPTER XY. 
DR. LIVINGSTONE VISITS THE FEMALE CHIEFS MANENKO AND 
NYAMOANA. 
On tho 27th of December wo were at tho confluence of tho 
Looba and Lccambyo, (lat. 14° 10' 52" S., long. 23° 35' 40" 
E ) Masiko, tho Barotso chiof, for whom wo had some 
captives, lived nearly duo east of this point. Thoy wore 
two little boys, a little girl, a young man, and two middle 
agod women. One of these was a member of a Babimpe 
tribe, who knock out both upper and lower front teeth a* 
a distinction. As wo had boon informed by the captive* 
on tho previous Sunday that Masiko was in tho habit of 
seizing all orphans, and those who have no powerful friend 
