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DIP OF ROCKS. 
Chap. XXVII. 
mouths like other people ? ” He then set off and brought large 
bundles of grass and wood for our comfort, and a pot to cook 
our food in. 
December 12th .—The morning presented the appearance of a 
continuous rain from the north, the first time we had seen it 
set in from that quarter in such a southern latitude. In the 
Bechuana country, continuous rains are always from the north¬ 
east or east, while in Londa and Angola they are from the north. 
At Pungo Andongo, for instance, the whitewash is all removed 
from the north side of the houses. It cleared up, however, about 
midday, and Monze’s sister conducted us a mile or two upon the 
road. On parting, she said that she had forwarded orders to a 
distant village, to send food to the point where we should sleep. 
In expressing her joy at the prospect of living in peace, she said 
it would be so pleasant to sleep without dreaming of any one 
pm-suing them with a spear.” 
In our front we had ranges of hills called Chamai, covered with 
trees. We crossed the rivulet Hakachinta, flowing eastwards 
into the Zambesi, and then passed over ridges of rocks of the 
same mica schist which we found so abundant in Golungo Alto; 
here they were surmounted by reddish porphyry and finely lami¬ 
nated felspathic grit with trap. The dip, however, of these rocks, 
is not towards the centre of the continent as in Angola, for 
ever since we passed the masses of gTanite on the Kalomo, 
the rocks, chiefly of mica schist, dip away from them, taking an 
easterly direction. A decided change of dip occurs again when 
we come near the Zambesi, as will be noticed further on. The 
hills wliich flank that river, now appeared on our right as a high 
dark range, while those near the Kafue, have the aspect of a low 
blue range, with openings between. We crossed two never-fading 
rivulets also flowing into the Kafue. The country is very fertile, 
but vegetation is nowhere ranl^. The boding point of water 
being 204^, showed that we were not yet as low down as Linyanti; 
but we had left the masuka-trees behind us, and many others 
with which we had become familiar. A feature common to the 
forests of Angola and Benguela, namely the presence of orcldlla- 
weed and hchens on the trees, with mosses on the ground, began 
to appear; but we never, on any part of the eastern slope, saw 
the abundant crops of ferns which are met with everywhere in 
