River. Extensive iron-workings.
An old Nimrod. The Bua River. Lovely scenery. Difficulties of
transport. Chilobe. An African Pythoness. Enlists two Waiyou
bearers. Ill. The Chitella bean. Rains set in. Arrives at the
Loangwa.

CHAPTER VII.

Crosses the Loangwa. Distressing march. The king-hunter. Great
hunger. Christmas feast necessarily postponed. Loss of goats.
Honey-hunters. A meal at last. The Babisa. The Mazitu again.
Chitembo's. End of 1866. The new year. The northern brim of the
great Loangwa Valley. Accident to chronometers. Meal gives out.
Escape from a Cobra capella. Pushes for the Chambeze. Death of
Chitane. Great pinch for food. Disastrous loss of medicine
chest. Bead currency. Babisa. The Chambeze. Reaches
Chitapangwa's town. Meets Arab traders from Zanzibar. Sends off
letters. Chitapangwa and his people. Complications.

CHAPTER VIII.

Chitapangwa's parting oath. Course laid for Lake Tanganyika.
Moamba's village. Another watershed. The Babemba tribe. Ill with
fever. Threatening attitude of Chibue's people. Continued
illness. Reaches cliffs overhanging Lake Liemba. Extreme beauty
of the scene. Dangerous fit of insensibility. Leaves the Lake.
Pernambuco cotton. Rumours of war between Arabs and Nsama.
Reaches Chitimba's village. Presents Sultan's letter to
principal Arab, Hamees. The war in Itawa. Geography of the
Arabs. Ivory traders and slave-dealers. Appeal to the Koran.
Gleans intelligence of the Wasongo, to the eastward, and their
chief, Merere. Hamees sets out against Nsama. Tedious sojourn.
Departure for Ponda. Native cupping.

CHAPTER IX.

Peace negotiations with Nsama. Geographical gleanings. Curious
spider. Reaches the River Lofu. Arrives at Nsama's. Hamees
marries the daughter of Nsama. Flight of the bride.
Conflagration in Arab quarters. Anxious to visit Lake Moero.
Arab burial. Serious illness. Continues journey. Slave-traders
on the march. Reaches Moero. Description of the Lake.
Information concerning the Chambeze and Luapula. Hears of Lake
Bemba. Visits spot of Dr. Lacerda's death. Casembe apprised of
Livingstone's approach. Meets Mohamad Bogharib. Lakelet Mofwe.
Arrives at Casembe's town.

CHAPTER X.

Grand reception of the traveller. Casembe and his wife. Long
stay in the town. Goes to explore Moero. Despatch to Lord
Clarendon