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laden with largo blocks of this substance, each eighty or 
a hundred pounds in weight, and pieces were offered to 
us for sale at evory village ; but hero we never saw a single 
artificial hive. The bees were always found in the natural 
cavities of mopane-trees. It is probablo that the good 
market for wax afforded to Angola by the churchos of 
Brazil led to tho gradual development of that branch of 
commerce thcro. I saw oven on tho banks of tho Quango as 
much as sixpcnco paid for a pound. In many parts of tho 
Batoka country bees exist in vast numbers, and tho tributo 
due to Sokelotu is often paid in largo jars of honey ; but, 
having no market nor use for tho wax, it is thrown away. 
This was the case also with ivory at tho Lako Ngami at 
tho period of its discovery. 
Though wo are now approaching tho Portuguese settle 
ment, the country is still full of largo gamo. My men 
killed six buffalo-calves out of a herd wo met. The abun- 
dance of theso animals, and also of antelopes, shows tho in 
sufficiency of the bow and arrow to lessen their numbers. 
Thoro are also a great many lions and hyenas, and there is 
no chock upon tho increase of the former, for tho people, 
bolioving that tho souls of their chiefs enter into them 
nover attempt to kill them : they even believo that a chiof 
may metamorphose himself into a lion, kill any ono he 
chooses, and then return to tho human form: therefore, 
when thoy seo ono, they commence clapping their hands, 
which is tho usual modo of salutation hero. The conse- 
quenco is that lions and hyenas aro so abundant that wc 
seo little huts made in tho trees, indicating tho places whoro 
somo of tho inhabitants have slept when benighted in tho 
fields. As numbers of my men frequently left tho lino of 
march in order to tako out tho korwos from their nosts 
or follow tho honey-guides, they excited tho astonishment 
of our guides, who wero constantly warning them of the 
danger thoy thereby incurred from lions. I was often con- 
siderably ahead of tho main body of my men on this ao- 
oount, and was obliged to stop every hour or two; but, the 
