is tusks. Their greater degradation was probably
caused by the treatment of their chiefs--the barbarians of the islands.
I found them more difficult to manage than any of the rest of my
companions, being much less reasonable and impressible than the others.
My party consisted of the head men aforementioned, Sekwebu, and Kanyata.
We were joined at the falls by another head man of the Makololo, named
Monahin, in command of the Batoka. We had also some of the Banajoa under
Mosisinyane, and, last of all, a small party of Bashubia and Barotse
under Tuba Mokoro, which had been furnished by Sekeletu because of
their ability to swim. They carried their paddles with them, and, as the
Makololo suggested, were able to swim over the rivers by night and steal
canoes, if the inhabitants should be so unreasonable as to refuse to
lend them. These different parties assorted together into messes; any
orders were given through their head man, and when food was obtained
he distributed it to the mess. Each party knew its own spot in the
encampment; and as this was always placed so that our backs should be to
the east, the direction from whence the prevailing winds came, no time
was lost in fixing the sheds of our encampment. They each took it in
turn to pull grass to make my bed, so I lay luxuriously.

NOVEMBER 26TH. As the oxen could only move at night, in consequence of
a fear that the buffaloes in this quarter might have introduced the
tsetse, I usually performed the march by day on foot, while some of
the men brought on the oxen by night. On coming to the villages under
Marimba, an old man, we crossed the Unguesi, a rivulet which, like the
Lekone, runs backward. It falls into the Leeambye a little above
the commencement of the rapids. The stratified gneiss, which is the
underlying rock of much of this part of the country, dips toward the
centre of the continent, but the strata are often so much elevated as to
appear nearly on their edges. Rocks of augitic trap are found in various
positions on it; the general strike is north and south; but when the
gneiss was first seen, near to the basalt of the falls, it was easterly
and westerly, and the dip toward the north, as if the eruptive force of
the basalt had placed it in that position.

We passed the remains of a very large town, which, from the only
evidence of antiquity afforded by ruins in this country, must have been
inhabited for a long period; the millstones of gneiss, trap, and
quar