mestic animals, though the country is well adapted for them. I
suspect this, like the country of Shinte and Katema, must have been a
tsetse district, and only recently rendered capable of supporting
other domestic animals besides the goat, by the destruction of the game
through the extensive introduction of fire-arms. We might all have been
as ignorant of the existence of this insect plague as the Portuguese,
had it not been for the numerous migrations of pastoral tribes which
took place in the south in consequence of Zulu irruptions.

During these exciting scenes I always forgot my fever, but a terrible
sense of sinking came back with the feeling of safety. The same demand
of payment for leave to pass was made on the 20th by old Ionga Panza
as by the other Chiboque. I offered the shell presented by Shinte, but
Ionga Panza said he was too old for ornaments. We might have succeeded
very well with him, for he was by no means unreasonable, and had but
a very small village of supporters; but our two guides from Kangenke
complicated our difficulties by sending for a body of Bangala traders,
with a view to force us to sell the tusks of Sekeletu, and pay them with
the price. We offered to pay them handsomely if they would perform their
promise of guiding us to Cassange, but they knew no more of the paths
than we did; and my men had paid them repeatedly, and tried to get rid
of them, but could not. They now joined with our enemies, and so did the
traders. Two guns and some beads belonging to the latter were standing
in our encampment, and the guides seized them and ran off. As my men
knew that we should be called upon to replace them, they gave chase, and
when the guides saw that they would be caught, they threw down the guns,
directed their flight to the village, and rushed into a hut. The doorway
is not much higher than that of a dog's kennel. One of the guides was
reached by one of my men as he was in the act of stooping to get in, and
a cut was inflicted on a projecting part of the body which would have
made any one in that posture wince. The guns were restored, but the
beads were lost in the flight. All I had remaining of my stock of beads
could not replace those lost; and though we explained that we had no
part in the guilt of the act, the traders replied that we had brought
the thieves into the country; these were of the Bangala, who had been
accustomed to plague the Portuguese in the most vexatious way. We were
striving