ill
could walk, others parted his luggage among them; yet we had often to
stop one day a week, besides Sundays, simply for the sake of rest. The
latitude of Lake Dilolo is 11d 32' 1" S., long. 22d 27' E.

JUNE 14TH. We reached the collection of straggling villages over
which Katema rules, and were thankful to see old familiar faces again.
Shakatwala performed the part of a chief by bringing forth abundant
supplies of food in his master's name. He informed us that Katema, too,
was out hunting skins for Matiamvo.

In different parts of this country, we remarked that when old friends
were inquired for, the reply was, "Ba hola" (They are getting better);
or if the people of a village were inquired for, the answer was, "They
are recovering," as if sickness was quite a common thing. Indeed, many
with whom we had made acquaintance in going north we now found were
in their graves. On the 15th Katema came home from his hunting, having
heard of our arrival. He desired me to rest myself and eat abundantly,
for, being a great man, I must feel tired; and he took good care to give
the means of doing so. All the people in these parts are exceedingly
kind and liberal with their food, and Katema was not behindhand. When
he visited our encampment, I presented him with a cloak of red baize,
ornamented with gold tinsel, which cost thirty shillings, according to
the promise I had made in going to Londa; also a cotton robe, both large
and small beads, an iron spoon, and a tin pannikin containing a quarter
of a pound of powder. He seemed greatly pleased with the liberality
shown, and assured me that the way was mine, and that no one should
molest me in it if he could help it. We were informed by Shakatwala that
the chief never used any part of a present before making an offer of it
to his mother, or the departed spirit to whom he prayed. Katema asked if
I could not make a dress for him like the one I wore, so that he
might appear as a white man when any stranger visited him. One of the
councilors, imagining that he ought to second this by begging, Katema
checked him by saying, "Whatever strangers give, be it little or much,
I always receive it with thankfulness, and never trouble them for more."
On departing, he mounted on the shoulders of his spokesman, as the most
dignified mode of retiring. The spokesman being a slender man, and the
chief six feet high, and stout in proportion, there would have been a
break-down had he not been accustomed