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THE OX “ SINBAD 
powder at our slceping-placo, and went back several miles 
for it. My clothing being wet from cross.ng a stream, I 
was compelled to wait for him : bad I been moving in the 
sun I should have felt no harm ; but the inaction lod to 8 
violent fit of fever. The continuance of this attack was a 
source of much regret ; for we wont on next day to a small 
mulct called Chihune, in a lovely valley, and had, for a 
wonder, a clear sky and a clear moon ; but such was the 
confusion produced in my mind by the state of my body, 
that I could scarcely manage, after some hours’ trial, to 
get a lunar observation in which I could repose confidence. 
The Chihune flows into the Longe, and that into the Chi- 
hombo, a feeder of the Kasai. Thoso who know the diffi- 
cultios of taking altitudes, times, and distances, and com- 
mitting all of thorn to paper, will sympathize with mo in 
this and many similar instances While at Chihune, the 
men of a village brought wax for sale, and, on finding that 
we wished honey, went off and soon brought a hive. All 
the bees in the country are in possession of the natives; 
for they place hives sufficient for them all. After having 
ascertained this, we never attended tho call of the honey- 
guide, for we were sure it would only lead us to a biv° 
which wo had no right to touch. The bird continues its 
habit of inviting attention to tho honey, though its ser- 
vices in this district are never actually needed, My 
Makololo lamented that they never know before that wax 
could be sold for any thing of value. 
In passing through thoso narrow paths I had an opp 0 ^ 
fcunity of observing tho peculiarities of my ox “Sinbad- 
Ho had a softer back than tho others, but a much more 
intractable temper. His horns wore bent downward an 
hung loosely, so ho could do no harm with them ; but, a 6 
wo wended our way slowly along tho narrow path, 
would suddenly dart aside. A string tied to a stick P ul 
through tho cartilage of the nose servos instead of a bridle- 
if you jerk this back, it makes him run faster on; if 3^ 
pull it to one side, he allows the nose and head to go> 
