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food was ready ; but- sho sont a baskot of corn and a fowl. As 
an oxcuso wny Boroma did not present hinasolf, sho said 
that ho was seized this morning by the Barimo, — which 
probably meant that his lordship was drunk. 
Wo marched along the river to a point opposito the hill 
Pinkwo, (lat. 15° 39' 11" S., long. 32° 5' E.;) but tho laio 
Abundant rains now flooded tho Zambesi again, and great 
quantities of wreck appeared upon tho stroam. 
This flood having filled tho river, wo found the numerous 
rivulots which flow into it filled also, and when going along 
tho Zambesi wo lost so much time in passing up each little 
stream till wo could find a ford about waist deep, and then 
returning to tho bank, that I resolved to leave tho river 
altogether and striko away to tho southeast. Wo accord- 
ingly struck off when opposito tho hill Pinkwo, and camo 
into a hai'd Mopano country. 
This Chicova is not a kingdom, as has been stated, but a 
level tract, a part of which is annually overflowed by tho 
Zambesi, and is well adapted for tho cultivation of corn. 
It is said to be below the northern end of the hill Bungwe. 
I was very much pleased in discovering a small specimen 
of such a precious mineral as coal. I saw no indication of 
silver; and, if it ever was worked by the natives, it is re- 
markable that they have entirely lost tho knowledge of it, 
and cannot distinguish between silver and tin. Our path 
lay along the bed of the Nake for some distance, the banks 
being covered with impenetrable thickets. The villages 
are not numerous ; but we went from one to the other, and 
were treated kindly. Here they call themselves Bambiri, 
though the general name of the whole nation is Banyai. 
One of our guides was an inveterate talker, always stop- 
ping and asking for pay, that he might go on with a merry 
heart. I thought that he led us in the most, difficult paths 
in order to make us feel his value, for, after passing through 
one thicket after another, we always came into the bed 
of the Nake again ; and as that was full of coarse sand, and 
the water only ankle deep, and as hot as a foot-bath from 
