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olack when ripe, and is good food, as the seeds aro small 
Many trees aro known by tradition, and ono roccivo* 
ourious bits of information in asking about different fruits 
that are met with. A treo named “ shokabakddzi" is su- 
perior to all others for making fire by friction. As its 
name implies, women may oven readily mako firo by it 
when benighted. 
Wo were tolorably successful in avoiding the villages, 
and slept ono night on the flanks of tho hill Zimika, whore 
a groat number of deep pot-holes afforded an abundant 
supply of good rain-water. Here, for tho first time, wo 
saw hills with bare, smooth, rocky tops, and wo crossed 
over broad dikes of gneiss and sycnitic porphyry: tho 
directions in which they lay wore N. and S. As wo woro 
now j oar to Teto, wo were congratulating ourselves on 
havirg avoided thoso who would only have plagued us; 
but next morning some men saw us, and ran off to inform 
tho neighboring villages of our passing. A party imme- 
diately pursued us, and, as they know avo woro within call 
of Katoldsa, (Monomotiipa,) they threatened to send infor- 
mation to that chief of our offence in passing through the 
country Avithout leave. We Avcro obliged to givo them two 
small tusks; for, had they told Katolosa of our supposed 
offence, avo should in all probability havo lost tho Avhole 
Wo then Avont through a very rough, stony country Avith- 
out any path. Being pretty Avell tired out in tho evening 
of tho 2d of March, I remained at about eight miles’ distance 
from Teto, Tctto, or NyungAve. My men asked mo to go 
on: I felt too fatigued to proceed, but sent forward to the 
commandant tho letters of recommendation with which 1 
had boon favored in Angola by tho bishop and othors, an d 
lay doAvn to rest. Our food having boon exhausted, mj 
men had boon subsisting for some time on roots and honey 
About two o’clock in tho morning of tho 3d avo wore 
aroused by two officers and a company of soldiers, who had 
been sent Avith tho materials for a civilized breakfast and a 
" mashcela” to bring mo to Tete. (Commandant’s house : 
