ave-trader, who
is used as a means of punishing those who have family differences, as
those of a wife with her husband, or a servant with his master. The
slaves are said to be generally criminals, and are sold in revenge or
as punishment. Kapika's wife had an ornament of the end of a shell
called the cone; it was borrowed and she came away with it in her
hair: the owner, without making any effort to recover it, seized one
of Kapika's daughters as a pledge that Kapika would exert himself to
get it back!

[At last the tedious delay came to an end and we must now follow the
Doctor on his way south to discover Lake Bemba.]

_11th June, 1868._--Crossed the Mbereze, ten yards broad and thigh
deep, ascending a range of low hills of hardened sandstone, covered,
as the country generally is, with forest. Our course S.E. and S.S.E.
Then descended into a densely-wooded valley, having a rivulet four
yards wide and knee deep. Buffaloes and elephants very numerous.

_12th June, 1868._--We crossed the Mbereze again twice; then a very
deep narrow rivulet, and stopped at another in a mass of trees, where
we spend the night, and killing an ox remained next day to eat it.
When at Kanengwa a small party of men came past, shouting as if they
had done something of importance: on going to them, I found that two
of them carried a lion slung to a pole. It was a small maneless
variety, called "the lion of _Nyassi_," or long grass. It had killed a
man and they killed it. They had its mouth carefully strapped, and the
paws tied across its chest, and were taking it to Casembe. _Nyassi_
means long grass, such as towers overhead, and is as thick in the
stalk as a goose-quill; and is erroneously applied to Nyassa. Other
lions--Thambwe, Karamo, Simba, are said to stand 5 feet high, and some
higher: this seemed about 3 feet high, but it was too dark to measure
it.

_13th June, 1868._--The Arabs distinguish the Suaheli, or Arabs of
mixed African blood, by the absence of beard and whiskers: these are
usually small and stunted in the Suaheli.

Birds, as the Drongo shrike, and a bird very like the grey linnet,
with a thick reddish bill, assemble in very large flocks now that it
is winter, and continue thus till November, or period of the rains.

A very minute bee goes into the common small holes in wormeaten wood
to make a comb and lay its eggs, with a supply of honey. There are
seven or eight honey-bees of small size in this country.

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