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my men became ill, but still could walk, others parted liis luggage 
among them; yet we had often to stop one day a-week, besides 
Sundays, simply for the sake of rest. The latitude of Lake Dilolo 
is 11° 32' 1" S., long. 22° 27' E. 
June 14^A.—We reached the collection of straggling callages 
over which Katema rules, and were thankful to see old famihar 
faces again. Shakatwala performed the part of a chief, by bring¬ 
ing forth abundant supplies of food in his master’s name. He 
informed us that Katema too, was out, hunting skins for Matiamvo. 
In different parts of this country, we remarked that when old 
friends were inquired for, the reply was, “ Ba hola—they are get- 
tmg betteror if the people of a village were inquired for, the 
answer was, “ They are recovering,” as if sickness was quite a com¬ 
mon thing. Indeed, many mth whom we had made acquaintance 
in going north, we now found were in their graves. On the 15th, 
Katema came home from his huntmg, having heard of our arrival. 
He deshed me to rest myself and eat abundantly, for, being a great 
man, I must feel thed; and he took good care to give the means 
of doing so. All the people in these parts are extremely kind 
and liberal with their food, and Katema was not behindhand. 
When he visited our encampment, I presented him with a cloak 
of red baize, ornamented with gold tinsel, wliich cost thirty shillings, 
according to the promise I had made in going to Loanda; also a 
cotton robe, both large and small beads, an hon spoon, and a tin 
pannikin containing a quarter of a pound of powder. He seemed 
greatly pleased with the hberahty shown, and assured me that 
the way was mine, and that no one should molest me in it, if he 
could help it. We were informed by Shakatwala that the chief 
never used any part of a present, before making an offer of it to 
his mother, or the departed sphit to whom he prayed. Katema 
asked if I could not make a cKess for linn hke the one I wore, so 
that he might appear as a white man when any stranger visited 
h im . One of the councillors, imagining that he ought to second 
this by begging, Katema checked him by saying, “ Whatever 
strangers give, be it httle or much, I always receive it with thanlv- 
fulness, and never trouble them for more.” On departmg, he 
mounted on the shoulders of his spokesman, as the most dignified 
mode of retiring. The spokesman being a slender man, and the 
cliief sis feet high, and stout in proportion, there would have been 
