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INTERVIEW WITH KAWAWA. 
(lat. 12° 22' 53" S., long. 20° 58' E.,) who brought us a 
handsome present of meal and the meat of an entire 
pallah. We here slaughtered the last of the cows pre- 
sented to us by Mr. Schut, which I had kept milked until 
it gave only a teaspoonful at a time. My men enjoyed a 
nearty laugh when they found that I had given up all hope 
of more, for they had boon talking among themselves about 
my perseverance. 
May 30. — We loft Bango, and proceeded to the river 
Loombwe, which flows to the N.N.E. and abounds in 
hippopotami. It is about sixty yards wide and four feet 
deep, but usually contains much less water than this, for 
there are fishing-weirs placed right across it. Like all tho 
African rivers in this quarter, it has morasses on each 
bank ; yet the valley in which it winds, when seen from 
tho high lands abovo, is extremely beautiful. 
Having passed the Loembwo, we were in a more open 
country, with every few hours a small valley, through 
which ran a little rill in tho middle of a bog. These were 
always difficult to pass, and, being numerous, kept the 
lower part of tho person constantly wot. 
On tho evening of tho 2d of Juno wo reached tho village 
of Kawawa, — rather an important porsonage in theso parts, 
'/his village consists of forty or fifty huts, and is surrounded 
by forest. Drums were beating over tho body of a man 
who had died tho preceding day, and some women were 
making a clamorous wail at tho door of his hut, and 
addressing tho deceased as if alive. 
In tho morning wo had agreeable intercourse with Ka- 
wawa : he visited us, and we sat and talked nearly tbt 
whole day with him and his people. When wo visited 
him in return, wo found him in his largo court-house? 
which, though of a bee-hive shapo, was remarkably well 
built. As I had shown him a number of curiosities, he 
now produced a jug, of English ware, shaped like an old 
man holding a can of beer in his hand, as the greatest 
cariosity he had to exhibit 
