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but, riding to the deep part, before I could dismount and 
seize the helm tho ox dashod off with his companions, and 
his body sank so deep that I failed in my attempt oven to 
catch tho blanket-bolt, and if I pullod tho bridlo tho ox 
seemed as if he would come backward upon mo; so I struck 
out for tho opposito bank alone. My poor fellows were 
dreadfully alarmed when they saw mo parted from tho 
cattlo, and about twenty of them made a simultaneous rush 
into the water for my rescue, and just as I roachcd the 
opposito bank one seized my arm, and another throw his 
around my body. When I stood up it was most gratifying 
to soo them all struggling toward mo. Some had leaped 
off tho bridge and allowed their cloaks to float down the 
stream. Part of my goods, abandoned in tho hurry, were 
brought up from tho bottom after I was safo. Great was 
tho plcasuro expressed when thoy found that I could swim 
like themselves, without tho aid of a tail, and I did and do 
feel grateful to thoso poor heathens for tho promptitude 
with which thoy dashed in to save, as they thought, my 
life. I found my clothes cumbersome in tho water : thoy 
could swim quicker from being naked. They swim like 
dogs, not frog-fashion as wo do. 
In tho evening wo crossed tho small rivulet Lozeze, and 
camo to some villages of tho Kasabi, from whom wo got 
some manioc in exchange for beads. Thoy tried to frighten 
us by telling of the deep rivors wo should have to cross in 
our vay. I was drying my clothes by turning mysolf rc und 
and round before tho firo. My men laughed at tho idea ol 
being frightoned by rivors. “Wo can all swim : who car- 
ried tho white man across tho river but himself?” I felt 
proud of their praise. 
Saturday, 4th March .— Camo to tho outskirts of tho ter- 
ritory of the Chiboquo. Wo crossed tho Kondo and Ka- 
luzo rivulets. The former is a deep, small stream with a 
bridgo, tho latter insignificant; tho valleys in which those 
rivulets run aro beautifully fertile. My companions are 
oontinually lamenting over tho uncultivated valoa in such 
