NEW ATTACK OF FEVER. 
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un, another form of salutation, of Christian (?) o. igin, “ Avo- 
»ie,” (Ave Marie.) The salutations probably travel farther 
than the faith. My people, when satisfied with a meal like 
that which they enjoy so often at home, amused themselvee 
fcy an uproarious dance. Katema sent to ask what I had 
given thorn to produce so much excitement. Intemese replied 
it was their custom, and they meant no harm. The com- 
panion of the ox we slaughtered refused food for two days, 
and went lowing about for him continually. He seemed 
inconsolable for bis loss, and tried again and again to 
oscapo back to the Makololo country. My men remarked, 
‘ He thinks, They will kill me as well as my friend.” Katema 
thought it the result of art, and had fears of my skill in 
medicine, and, of course, witchcraft. He refused to see the 
magic lantern. 
On Sunday, the 19th, both I and several of our party 
wore seized with fever, and I could do nothing but toss 
about in my little tent, with the thermometer about 90°, — 
though this was the beginning of winter, and my men 
mado as much shade as possible by planting branches of 
trees all round and over it. We have, for the first time in 
my experience in Africa, had a cold wind from the north. 
•A.11 the winds from that quarter are hot, and those from 
the south are cold; but they seldom blow from either 
direction. 
20<A. — We were glad to get away, though not on account 
°f any scarcity of food; for my men, by giving small 
presents of moat as an earnest of thoir sincerity, formed 
^moy friendships with the people of Katema. Wo wont 
®bout four or five miles in a N.N.W. direction, then two in 
* wostorly ono, and came round the small end of Lako 
"dolo. It soomod, as far as wo could at this time discern, 
*° bo liko a river a quarter of a milo wide. 
Immediately beyond Dilolo thero is a largo flat abou 
twenty miles in breadth. Here Shakatwala insisted on our 
omaining to got supplies of food from Katema’s subjeots 
°®foro entering the uninhabited watery plains. 
