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meal, and I told them they might come and take a 
share with my fellows as long as the stores held out, 
and a few days have made an alarming diminution in 
their amount. 
19 th. — Letloche .—We had hard work to get here, 
but we have found abundance of water, and I in¬ 
tend remaining three days to refresh the worn-out 
oxen. One poor thing, Spearman, was unable to 
reach the water, and we were forced to leave him ; he 
came on in the night of his own accord, when a lion 
waylaid him and made a meal of him. He got off 
scathless, as I was still at Caballa, waiting the return 
of the oxen sent forward to drink. My horses, too, 
are completely knocked up, so we can shoot nothing, 
and I was never so badly off for food before in my 
life. My two favourite goats, that have followed like 
dogs for 1,500 miles at least, were condemned two 
nights ago, and one was butchered on the spot; the 
other has run away, but I expect to see him brought 
back every minute, to share the same fate. 
25 th. — Massouey .—I left Sicomo’s on the 22nd, 
where I could obtain nothing whatever in the shape 
of food from him or his people, though we were all 
terribly hungry. A German missionary, lately settled 
there, sent me a sheep and about half a bucketfull 
of meal; but there was nothing in the State, all were 
crying out on account of hunger. The corn is not 
yet in the ground. Everything is parched up from 
drought; there is no grass, and I never saw so little 
water in fountains where I have always before found 
