ose in Angola--
Abundance of Fruit.
Chapter 27. Low Hills--Black Soldier-Ants; their Cannibalism--
The Plasterer and its Chloroform--White Ants; their
Usefulness--Mutokwane-smoking; its Effects--Border Territory--
Healthy Table-lands--Geological Formation--Cicadae--Trees--
Flowers--River Kalomo--Physical Conformation of Country--
Ridges, sanatoria--A wounded Buffalo assisted--Buffalo-bird--
Rhinoceros-bird--Leaders of Herds--The Honey-guide--The White
Mountain--Mozuma River--Sebituane's old Home--Hostile Village--
Prophetic Phrensy--Food of the Elephant--Ant-hills--Friendly
Batoka--Clothing despised--Method of Salutation--Wild Fruits--
The Captive released--Longings for Peace--Pingola's Conquests--
The Village of Monze--Aspect of the Country--Visit from the
Chief Monze and his Wife--Central healthy Locations--Friendly
Feelings of the People in reference to a white Resident--
Fertility of the Soil--Bashukulompo Mode of dressing their
Hair--Gratitude of the Prisoner we released--Kindness and
Remarks of Monze's Sister--Dip of the Rocks--Vegetation--
Generosity of the Inhabitants--Their Anxiety for Medicine--
Hooping-cough--Birds and Rain.
Chapter 28. Beautiful Valley--Buffalo--My young Men kill two
Elephants--The Hunt--Mode of measuring Height of live
Elephants--Wild Animals smaller here than in the South, though
their Food is more abundant--The Elephant a dainty Feeder--
Semalembue--His Presents--Joy in prospect of living in Peace--
Trade--His People's way of wearing their Hair--Their Mode of
Salutation--Old Encampment--Sebituane's former Residence--Ford
of Kafue--Hippopotami--Hills and Villages--Geological
Formation--Prodigious Quantities of large Game--Their
Tameness--Rains--Less Sickness than in the Journey to Loanda--
Reason--Charge from an Elephant--Vast Amount of animal Life on
the Zambesi--Water of River discolored--An Island with
Buffaloes and Men on it--Native Devices for killing Game--
Tsetse now in Country--Agricultural Industry--An Albino
murdered by his Mother--"Guilty of Tlolo"--Women who make
their Mouths "like those of Ducks"--First Symptom of the
Slave-trade on this side--Selole's Hostility--An armed Party
hoaxed--An Italian Marauder slain--Elephant's Tenacity of
Life--A Word to young Sportsmen--Mr. Oswell's Adventure with
an Elephant; narrow Escape--Mburuma's Village--Suspicious
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