mber also of red-coloured pigs were seen. The people in the
neighbourhood having no guns, they are never disturbed.

A night was spent in a huge baobab-tree, which would hold twenty men
inside.

As they moved on, a herd of buffaloes came strutting up to look at their
oxen, and only by shooting one could they be made to retreat. Shortly
afterwards a female elephant, with three young ones, charged through,
the centre of their extended line, when the men, throwing down their
burdens, retreated in a great hurry, she receiving a spear for her
temerity.

They were made aware of their approach to the great river by the vast
number of waterfalls which appeared. It was found to be much broader
than above the falls: a person might indeed attempt in vain to make his
voice heard across it. An immense amount of animal life was seen both
around and in it.

Pursuing their course down the left bank, they came opposite the island
of Menyemakaba, which is about two miles long and a quarter broad.
Besides its human population it supports a herd of upwards of sixty
buffalo. The comparatively small space to which the animals have
confined themselves shows the luxuriance of the vegetation. The only
time that the natives can attack them is when the river is full and part
is flooded: they then assail them from their canoes.

The inhabitants of the north side of the Zambesi are the Batonga; those
on the south bank the Banyai.

Both buffalo and elephants are numerous. To kill them the natives form
stages on high trees overhanging the paths by which they come to the
water. From thence they dart down their spears, the blades of which are
twenty inches long by two broad, when the motion of the handle, aided by
knocking against the trees, makes fearful gashes which soon cause death.
They form also a species of trap. A spear inserted in a beam of wood
is suspended from the branch of a tree, to which a cord is attached with
a latch. The cord being led along the path when struck by the animal's
foot, the beam falls, and, the spear being poisoned, death shortly
ensues.

At each village they passed, two men were supplied to conduct them to
the next, and lead them through the parts least covered with jungle.

The villagers were busily employed in their gardens. Most of the men
have muscular figures. Their colour varies from a dark to a light
olive. The women have the extraordinary custom of piercing the upper
lip, and gradually enla