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same uniform kindness. As I mentioned, at nine o’clock 
on the 7th we quitted the plain, and succeeded in 
reaching the mountains near Catongo, all of us, sound 
as well as wounded, in the greatest state of weakness. 
This new plan adopted by the King and his people, 
of starving us to death, gave me subject for serious 
meditation, for I found myself thus isolated, in a country 
destitute of game. Our only resource was, as I observed, 
above, the fish which abounded in the lakes. 
Major Pinto sailed down the Zambesi as far as the 
Gonlia Cataracts above the Victoria Falls, before 
striking south for the Transvaal. We need not follow 
him further over well-known ground. He met with 
English traders, travellers, and missionaries, and speaks 
of all in the highest terms, of their enterprise and their 
hospitality, contrasting them markedly in this respect 
with the Portuguese officials whom he met in West Africa. 
MALEUCA. 
