BOROMA’B VILLAGE. 
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noxt island wo camo to was that of a man named Mozinkwa 
Hero wo wore detained some days by continuous rains. 
Wo wore detained here so long that my tent became 
again quito rotten. One of my men, after long sicknoss, 
which 1 did not understand, died hero. He was one of the 
Batoka, and when unable to walk I had some difficulty in 
making his companions carry him. They wished to leave 
him to die when his easo became hopeless. Another of 
them deserted to Mozinkwa. Ho said that his motivo for 
doing so was that the Makololo had killed both his father 
and mother, and, as he had neither wife nor child, thero 
was no reason why ho should continuo longer with them. 
[ did not object to his statomonts, but said if he should 
change his mind ho would be welcome to rojoin us, and 
intimated to Mozinkwa that he must not be sold as a slavo 
February 1. — Wo met some native traders ; and, as many 
of my men were now in a state of nudity, I bought somt 
American calico, marked “ Lawrence Mills, Lowell,” with 
two small tusks, and distributed it among the most needy. 
After leaving Mozinkwa’s, wo camo to the Zingesi, a sand- 
rivulot in flood, (lat. 15° 38' 34" S., long. 31° 1' E.) It was 
sixty or seventy yards wide, and waist deep. Like all theso 
Band-rivers, it is for tho most part dry; but, by digging 
down a few foet, water is to bo found, which is percolating 
along the bed on a stratum of clay. 
February 4. — We wore much dotained by rains, a heavy 
shower without wind falling every morning about daybreak : 
it often cleared up aftor that, admitting of our moving on a 
few miles. A continuous rain of several hours then set in. 
On tho 6th wo camo to tho villago of Boroma, which is 
situated among a numbor of others, each surroundod by 
oxtonsivo patchos of cultivation. On the opposito side of 
the river we have a great cluster of conical hills, called 
Chorichori. Boroma did not mako his appoarance, but sent 
a substitute, who acted civilly. I sent Sokwobu in tho 
morning to state that wo intondod to move on : his mother 
replied that, as she had expected that wo should remain, no 
