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keeps the opposite eye directed to the forbidden spot and 
goes in spite of you. Tho only way he can bo brought to 
a stand is by a stroke with a wand across tho noso. When_ 
Sinbad ran in below a climber stretched over the path so 
low that I could not stoop under it, I was dragged oil and 
name down on the crown of my head; and ho never 
allowed an opportunity of the kind to pass without trying 
to inflict a kick, as if I neither had nor deserved his love. 
On leaving the Chihune, we crossed tho Longe, and, as 
tho day was cloudy, our guides wandered in a forest away 
to the west till wo came to tho river Chihombo, flowing to 
the E.N.E. My men depended so much on the sun for 
guidance, that, haring seen nothing of the luminary all 
day, they thought we had wandered back to the Chiboque; 
and, as often happens when bewildered, they disputed as 
to tho point where tho sun should r ,e next morning. As 
soon as the rains would allow next my, wo went off to tho 
N.E. It would have boon better to have travelled by com- 
pass alone ; for tho guides took advantage of any fears ex- 
pressed by my people, and threatened to return it presents 
were not made at once. But my men had never loft their 
own country before except for rapine and murder. \\ hen 
they formerly came to a village, they were in tho habit of 
killing numbers of tho inhabitants and then taking a few 
young men to serve as guides to the next place. As this 
was their first attempt at an opposite lino of conduct, and 
as they wore without their shields, they felt defenceless 
among tho greedy Chiboque, and some allowance must be 
uiado for them on that account. 
Saturday, llfA. — Beached a small village on the banks 
of a narrow stream. I was too ill to go out of my little 
covering except tc quell a mutiny which began to show 
itself among some of the Batoka and Ambonda of our 
pnrty. They grumbled, as thoy often do against thoir 
chiefs when they think them partial in thoir gifts, because 
they supposod that I had shown a preference in the distri- 
bution of the beads ; but tho beads I had given to my prin- 
