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MANIOC-GARDENS. 
that wo had boon driven away from the town, sinco wo had 
boon several days with him, ho gave a most hoarty saluta- 
tion, and wo parted with the wish that God might blew 
him. 
CHAPTER XYII. 
D». LIVINGSTONE PASSES THROUGH LONDA AND VISIT* 
KATEMA. 
26 th. — Leaving Shinte, with eight of his men to aid in 
carrying our luggage, wo passod, in a northerly direction, 
down the lovely valley on which the town stands, then 
went a little to the west through pretty open forest, and 
glept at a village of Balonda. In the morning we had a 
fine rango of green hills, called Saloisho, on our right, and 
were informed that they wero rather thickly inhabited 
by the people of Shinto, who worked in iron, the ore of 
which abounds in these hills. 
The country through which wo passed possessed the same 
general character of flatness and forest that we noticed 
before The soil is dark with a tinge of red — in some 
places it might bo called red — and appeared very fertile 
Every valley contained villages of twenty or thirty huts, 
with gardens of manioc, which here is looked upon as the 
staff of life. Very little labor is required for its cultiva- 
tion, The earth is drawn up into oblong beds, about three 
feet broad and ono in height, and in these are planted 
pieces of the manioc-stalk, at four foot apart A crop of 
beans or groundnuts is sown betwoen them, and when 
these are reaped the land around the manioc is cleared of 
weeds In from ten to eighteen months after planting, ac- 
cording to the quality of the soil, the roots are fit for food. 
There is no necessity for reaping soon, as tho roots do not 
become bitter and dry until after three years. When a 
