communicate. The
headman, Matunda, came back with him, bearing a calabash with water for
us. He said that all the people had fled from the Ajawa, who had only
just desisted from their career of pillage on being paid five persons as
a fine for some offence for which they had commenced the invasion.
Matunda had plenty of grain to sell, and all the women were soon at work
grinding it into meal. We secured an abundant supply, and four milk
goats. The Manganja goat is of a very superior breed to the general
African animal, being short in the legs and having a finely-shaped broad
body. By promising the Makololo that, when we no longer needed the milk,
they should have the goats to improve the breed of their own at home,
they were induced to take the greatest possible care of both goats and
kids in driving and pasturing.

After leaving Matunda, we came to the end of the highland valley; and,
before descending a steep declivity of a thousand feet towards the part
which may be called the heel of the Lake, we had the bold mountains of
Cape Maclear on our right, with the blue water at their base, the hills
of Tsenga in the distance in front, and Kirk's Range on our left,
stretching away northwards, and apparently becoming lower. As we came
down into a fine rich undulating valley, many perennial streams running
to the east from the hills on our left were crossed, while all those
behind us on the higher ground seemed to unite in one named Lekue, which
flowed into the Lake.

After a long day's march in the valley of the Lake, where the temperature
was very much higher than in that we had just left, we entered the
village of Katosa, which is situated on the bank of a stream among
gigantic timber trees, and found there a large party of Ajawa--Waiau,
they called themselves--all armed with muskets. We sat down among them,
and were soon called to the chiefs court, and presented with an ample
mess of porridge, buffalo meat, and beer. Katosa was more frank than any
Manganja chief we had met, and complimented us by saying that "we must be
his 'Bazimo' (good spirits of his ancestors); for when he lived at
Pamalombe, we lighted upon him from above--men the like of whom he had
never seen before, and coming he knew not whence." He gave us one of his
own large and clean huts to sleep in; and we may take this opportunity of
saying that the impression we received, from our first journey on the
hills among the villages of Chisunse, of the