y seem to be
attracted by the great numbers of fish caught. The people here are
Babemba, but beyond the river Kalongosi they are all Balunda.

A trade in salt is carried on from different salt springs and salt mud
to Lunda and elsewhere. We meet parties of salt-traders daily, and
they return our salutations very cordially, rubbing earth on the arms.
We find our path lies between two ranges of mountains, one flanking
the eastern shore, the other about three miles more inland, and
parallel to it: these are covered thickly with trees, and are of
loosely-coherent granite: many villages are in the space enclosed by
these ranges, but all insecure.

_12th November, 1867._.--We came to the Kalongosi, or, as the Arabs
and Portuguese pronounce it, Karungwesi, about 60 yards wide, and
flowing fast over stones. It is deep enough, even now when the rainy
season is not commenced, to requite canoes. It is said to rise in
Kumbi, or Afar, a country to the south-east of our ford. Fish in great
numbers are caught when ascending to spawn: they are secured by weirs,
nets, hooks. Large strong baskets are placed in the rapids, and filled
with stones, when the water rises these baskets are standing-places
for the fishermen to angle or throw their nets. Having crossed the
Kalongosi we were now in Lunda, or Londa.

_13th November, 1867._--We saw that the Kalongosi went north till it
met a large meadow on the shores of Moero, and, turning westwards, it
entered there. The fishermen gave us the names of 39 species of fish
in the Lake; they said that they never cease ascending the Kalongosi,
though at times they are more abundant than at others: they are as
follows.

Monde; Mota; Lasa; Kasibe; Molobe; Lopembe; Motoya; Chipansa;
Mpifu; Manda; Mpala; Moombo; Mfeu; Mende; Seuse; Kadia nkololo;
Etiaka; Nkomo; Lifisha; Sambamkaka; Ntondo; Sampa; Bongwe;
Mabanga; Kise; Kuanya; Nkosu; Pale; Mosungu; Litembwa;
Mechebere; Koninchia; Sipa; Lomembe; Molenga; Mironge; Nfindo;
Pende.

_14th November, 1867._--Being doubtful as to whether we were in the
right path, I sent to a village to inquire. The headman, evidently
one of a former Casembe school, came to us full of wrath. "What right
had we to come that way, seeing the usual path was to our left?" He
mouthed some sentences in the pompous Lunda style, but would not show
us the path; so we left him, and after going through a forest of large
trees, 4-1/2 hours south, took advantage