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REMAINS OR ANTIQUITY. 
joa under Mosisinyane, and, last of all, a small party of 
Bashubia and Barotse under Tuba Mokoro, which had booD 
furnished by Sekeletu because of their ability to swim 
They carried their paddles with them, and, as tho Makololo 
suggested, wore ablo to swim over the rivers by night and 
steal canoes if the inhabitants should be so unreasonable 
as to refuso to lend them. These different parties assorted 
together into mossos : any orders were given through their 
head-man, and when food was obtained ho distributed it to 
the mess. Each party know its own spot in the encamp 
ment; and, as this was always placed so that our backs 
should be to tho cast, tho direction from whence tho pro- 
vailing winds came, no timo was lost in fixing tho sheds of 
our encampment. They each took it in turn to pull grass 
to make my bed ; so I lay luxuriously. 
November 26. — As tho oxon could only move at night, in 
consequence of a fear that tho buffaloes in this quartoi 
might havo introduced the tsetse, I usually performed the 
march by day on foot, while some of tho men brought on 
tho oxon by night. On coming to tho villages undoi 
Marimba, an old man, wo crossed tho Unguosi, a rivulet 
which, like tho Lekono, runs backward. It falls into the 
Lccambyo a little above tho commencement of the rapids. 
We passed tho remains of a very large town, which, froff 
tho only evidonco of antiquity afforded by ruins in this 
country, must havo been inhabited for a long period : tho 
millstones of gneiss, trap, and quartz were worn down two 
and a half inches perpendicularly. Tho ivory gravostonos 
soon rot away. Thoso of Moyara’s fathor, who must have 
died not more than a dozon years ago, wore crumbling into 
powder ; and wo found this to bo generally tho caso all 
over tho Batolca country. The region around is pretty 
well covered with forest ; but thero is abundance of open 
pasturage, and, as wo aro ascending in altitude, wo fin* 
the grass to bo short and altogether unliko tho tangle^ 
borbago of the Barotse valley. 
