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NO HEALTHY LOCATION. 
Chap. XH. 
There the Leeambye assumes the name Kabompo, and seems to 
be coming from the east. It is a fine large rivei% about three 
hundred yards wide, and the Leeba two hundred and fifty. The 
Loeti, a branch of wliich is called Langebongo, comes from 
W.N.W., tlirough a level grassy plain named Mango; it is about 
one hundred yards wide, and enters the Leeambye from the west; 
the waters of the Loeti are of a light colour, and those of the 
Leeba of a dark mossy hue. After the Loeti joins the Leeambye 
the different colom^ed waters flow side by side for some distance 
unmixed. 
Before reaching the Loeti we came to a number of people from 
the Lobale region, hunting hippopotami. They fled precipitately 
as soon as they saw the Makololo, leaving theff canoes and all 
their utensils and clothing. My own Mal^alaka, who were accus¬ 
tomed to plunder wherever they went, rushed after them like 
fmies, totally regardless of my shouting. As tliis proceeding 
would have destroyed my character entffely at Lobale, I took my 
stand on a commanding position as they returned, and forced 
them to lay down all the plunder on a sandbank, and leave it 
there for its lawful owners. 
It was now quite evident that no healthy location could be 
obtained in wliich the Makololo would be allowed to live in peace. 
I had thus a fair excuse, if I had chosen to avail myself of it, of 
coming home and saying that the “ door was shut,” because the 
Lord’s time had not yet come. But beheving that it was my 
duty to devote some portion of my life to these (to me at least) 
very confiding and affectionate Makololo, I resolved to follow out 
the second part of my plan, though I had failed in accomplishing 
the first. The Leeba seemed to come from the N. and by W., or 
N.N.W.; so, having an old Portuguese map, which pointed out 
the Coanza as rising from the middle of the continent in 9° S. lat., 
I thought it probable that, when we had ascended the Leeba (from 
14° 11') two or three degrees, we should then be witliin one hun¬ 
dred and twenty miles of the Coanza, and find no difficulty in 
following it down to the coast near Loanda. Tliis was the logical 
deduction, but, as is the case with many a plausible theory, one 
of the premises was decidedly defective. The Coanza, as we 
afterwards found, does not come from anywhere near the centre 
of the country. 
