LOW HILLS. 
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■rag BATOKA OODNTBY — DK. LIVINGSTONE VISITS THK CHIBf 
MONZE. 
November 27. — Still at Marimba’s. In the adjacent 
oountry palms abound, but none of tnat species which 
yields tho oil: indeed, that is met witn oniy near the 
coast. Thcro are numbers of flowers ana dujds just shoot- 
ing up from tho soil. Tho surfaco is rough and broken 
into gullies; and, though tho country is parched, it has 
not that appearanco, so many trees having put forth thoir 
fresh green leaves at tho time tho rains ought to have 
como. Among tho rest stands tho mola, with its dark 
brownish-green color and spreading oak-liko form. In tho 
distanco thcro aro ranges of low hills. On tho north wo 
have ono called Kanjole, and to tho oast that of Kaonka, to 
which we proceed to-morrow. Wo have made a consider- 
able detour to the north, both on account of our wish to 
avoid tho tsetse and to visit tho people. Those of Kaonka 
are the last Batoka wo shall meet in friendship with the 
Makololo. 
November 28. — The inhabitants of tho last of Kaonka's 
villages complained of being plundered by the independent 
Batoka. Tho tribes in front of this aro regarded by the 
Makololo as in a state of rebellion. I promised to spoak to 
the rebels on the subject, and enjoined on Kaonka tho duty 
of giving them no offonco. According to Sokcletu’s ordor, 
Kaonka gave us the tributo of maize-corn and groundnuts 
which would otherwise bavo gone to Linyanti. This had 
been done at oveiy village, and wo thereby saved the 
pooplo tho trouble of a joumoy to the capital. My own 
Batoka had brought away such loads of provisions from 
'heir homes that we were in no want of food. 
