k boulders off the mountains, all the wise men of the
country assembled to talk about it and came to the following
conclusion, that a star had fallen from heaven into the sea, and that
the bubbling caused the whole earth to rock; they said the effect was
the same as that caused by throwing, a red-hot stone into a pot of
water.--ED.

[21] The Waiyau language differs very much from the Nyassa, and is
exceedingly difficult to master: it holds good from the coast to
Nyassa, but to the west of the Lake the Nyassa tongue is spoken over a
vast tract.--ED.

[22] We shall see that more to the north the hump entirely disappears.

[23] It is very singular to witness the disgust with which the idea of
drinking milk is received by most of these tribes when we remember
that the Caffre nations on the south, and again, tribes more to the
north, subsist principally on it. A lad will undergo punishment rather
than milk a goat. Eggs are likewise steadily eschewed.--ED.

[24] To myself.--ED.

CHAPTER V.

Crosses Cape Maclear. The havildar demoralised. The discomfited
chief. Beaches Marenga's town. The earth-sponge. Description of
Marenga's town. Rumours of Mazitu. Musa and the Johanna men
desert. Beaches Kimsusa's. His delight at seeing the Doctor once
more. The fat ram. Kimsusa relates his experience of
Livingstone's advice. Chuma finds relatives. Kimsusa solves the
transport difficulty nobly. Another old fishing acquaintance.
Description of the people and country on the west of the Lake.
The Kanthundas. Kauma. Iron-smelting. An African Sir Colin
Campbell. Milandos.

_21st September, 1866._--We marched westwards, making across the base
of Cape Maclear. Two men employed as guides and carriers, went along
grumbling that their dignity was so outraged by working--"only fancy
Waiyau carrying like slaves!!" They went but a short distance, and
took advantage of my being in front to lay down the loads, one of
which consisted of the havildar's bed and cooking things; here they
opened the other bundle and paid themselves--the gallant havildar
sitting and looking on. He has never been of the smallest use, and
lately has pretended to mysterious pains in his feet; no swelling or
other symptom accompanied this complaint. On coming to Pima's village
he ate a whole fowl and some fish for supper, slept soundly till
daybreak, then on awaking commenced a furious groaning--"feet were so
bad." I told him