What do you stand gazing at? Don't
you know that they have mouths like other people?" He then set off and
brought large bundles of grass and wood for our comfort, and a pot to
cook our food in.

DECEMBER 12TH. The morning presented the appearance of a continuous rain
from the north, the first time we had seen it set in from that quarter
in such a southern latitude. In the Bechuana country, continuous rains
are always from the northeast or east, while in Londa and Angola they
are from the north. At Pungo Andongo, for instance, the whitewash is all
removed from the north side of the houses. It cleared up, however, about
midday, and Monze's sister conducted us a mile or two upon the road. On
parting, she said that she had forwarded orders to a distant village to
send food to the point where we should sleep. In expressing her joy at
the prospect of living in peace, she said it would be so pleasant "to
sleep without dreaming of any one pursuing them with a spear."

In our front we had ranges of hills called Chamai, covered with trees.
We crossed the rivulet Nakachinta, flowing westward into the Kafue, and
then passed over ridges of rocks of the same mica schist which we
found so abundant in Golungo Alto; here they were surmounted by reddish
porphyry and finely laminated felspathic grit with trap. The dip,
however, of these rocks is not toward the centre of the continent, as
in Angola, for ever since we passed the masses of granite on the
Kalomo, the rocks, chiefly of mica schist, dip away from them, taking
an easterly direction. A decided change of dip occurs again when we come
near the Zambesi, as will be noticed farther on. The hills which flank
that river now appeared on our right as a high dark range, while those
near the Kafue have the aspect of a low blue range, with openings
between. We crossed two never-failing rivulets also flowing into the
Kafue. The country is very fertile, but vegetation is nowhere rank. The
boiling-point of water being 204 Deg., showed that we were not yet as
low down as Linyanti; but we had left the masuka-trees behind us, and
many others with which we had become familiar. A feature common to the
forests of Angola and Benguela, namely, the presence of orchilla-weed
and lichens on the trees, with mosses on the ground, began to appear;
but we never, on any part of the eastern slope, saw the abundant crops
of ferns which are met with every where in Angola. The orchilla-weed and
mosses, too, were