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men on foot crossed these gullies holding up their burdens 
at arms’ length. 
Great numbors of the omnivorous-feeding fish Glanii 
liluris, or mosala, spread themselves over the flooded plains, 
and, as the waters retire, try to find their way back again 
to the rivers. The Balonda make earthen dikes and 
hedges across the outlets of the retreating waters, leaving 
only small spaces through which the chief part of the 
water flows. In these open spaces they plant creels, simi- 
lar in shape to our own, into which the fish can enter but 
cannot return. They secure large quantities of fish in 
this way, which, when smoke-dried, make a good relish for 
their otherwise-insipid food. They use also a weir of mats 
made of reeds sewed together, with but half an inch be- 
tween each. Open spaces are left for the insertion of the 
creels as before. 
In still water, a fish-trap is employed of the same shape 
and plan as the common round wire mouse-trap, which has 
an opening surrounded with wires pointing inward. This 
is made of reeds and supple wands, and food is placed 
inside to attract the fish. 
Besides these means of catching fish, they use a hook of 
Iron without a barb; the point is bent inward instead, so 
as not to allow the fish to escape. Nets are not so common 
as in the Zouga and Leeambye ; but they kill large quan- 
tities of fishes by means of the bruised leaves of a shrub 
which may be seen planted beside every village in the 
country. 
On the 7th we came to the village of Soana Moldpo, 
a half-brother of Katoma, a few miles beyond the Lokar 
lneje. When we wont to visit him, wo found him sitting 
with about one hundred men. He called on Intemese to 
give some account of us, though no doubt it had been done 
in private before. He then pronounced the following sen- 
tences : — “ The journey of the white man is very proper ; 
bnt Shinte has disturbed us by showing the path to the 
Makololo -who acoompany him. He ought tp bav<“ taken 
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