f Matiamvo had never gone far down it, as their chief had always
been afraid of encountering a tribe whom, from the description given,
I could recognize as the Makololo. He described five rivers as falling
into the Lolo, viz., the Lishish, Liss or Lise, Kalileme, Ishidish, and
Molong. None of these are large, but when they are united in the Lolo
they form a considerable stream. The country through which the Lolo
flows is said to be flat, fertile, well peopled, and there are large
patches of forest. In this report he agreed perfectly with the people of
Matiamvo, whom we had met at Quendende's village. But we never could get
him, or any one in this quarter, to draw a map on the ground, as people
may readily be got to do in the south.

Katema promised us the aid of some of his people as carriers, but his
rule is not very stringent or efficient, for they refused to turn out
for the work. They were Balobale; and he remarked on their disobedience
that, though he received them as fugitives, they did not feel grateful
enough to obey, and if they continued rebellious he must drive them back
whence they came; but there is little fear of that, as all the chiefs
are excessively anxious to collect men in great numbers around them.
These Balobale would not go, though our guide Shakatwala ran after some
of them with a drawn sword. This degree of liberty to rebel was very
striking to us, as it occurred in a country where people may be sold,
and often are so disposed of when guilty of any crime; and we well knew
that open disobedience like this among the Makololo would be punished
with death without much ceremony.

On Sunday, the 19th, both I and several of our party were seized with
fever, and I could do nothing but toss about in my little tent, with the
thermometer above 90 Deg., though this was the beginning of winter, and
my men made as much shade as possible by planting branches of trees
all round and over it. We have, for the first time in my experience in
Africa, had a cold wind from the north. All the winds from that quarter
are hot, and those from the south are cold, but they seldom blow from
either direction.

20TH. We were glad to get away, though not on account of any scarcity
of food; for my men, by giving small presents of meat as an earnest of
their sincerity, formed many friendships with the people of Katema.
We went about four or five miles in a N.N.W. direction, then two in a
westerly one, and came round the small en