effected his conquests by carrying numbers of smith's bellows with him.
The arrow-heads were heated before shooting into a town, and when a
wound was inflicted on either man or beast, great confusion ensued.
After Pingola came Sebituane, and after him the Matebele of Mosilikatse;
and these successive inroads have reduced the Batoka to a state in which
they naturally rejoice at the prospect of deliverance and peace.

We spent Sunday, the 10th, at Monze's village, who is considered the
chief of all the Batoka we have seen. He lives near the hill Kisekise,
whence we have a view of at least thirty miles of open undulating
country, covered with short grass, and having but few trees. These open
lawns would in any other land, as well as this, be termed pastoral, but
the people have now no cattle, and only a few goats and fowls. They
are located all over the country in small villages, and cultivate
large gardens. They are said to have adopted this wide-spread mode of
habitation in order to give alarm should any enemy appear. In former
times they lived in large towns. In the distance (southeast) we see
ranges of dark mountains along the banks of the Zambesi, and are told of
the existence there of the rapid named Kansala, which is said to impede
the navigation. The river is reported to be placid above that as far
as the territory of Sinamane, a Batoka chief, who is said to command it
after it emerges smooth again below the falls. Kansala is the only rapid
reported in the river until we come to Kebrabasa, twenty or thirty miles
above Tete. On the north we have mountains appearing above the horizon,
which are said to be on the banks of the Kafue.

The chief Monze came to us on Sunday morning, wrapped in a large cloth,
and rolled himself about in the dust, screaming "Kina bomba," as they
all do. The sight of great naked men wallowing on the ground, though
intended to do me honor, was always very painful; it made me feel
thankful that my lot had been cast in such different circumstances from
that of so many of my fellow-men. One of his wives accompanied him; she
would have been comely if her teeth had been spared; she had a little
battle-axe in her hand, and helped her husband to scream. She was much
excited, for she had never seen a white man before. We rather liked
Monze, for he soon felt at home among us, and kept up conversation
during much of the day. One head man of a village after another arrived,
and each of them supplied us