The country generally may be called one covered with forest.
_6th March, 1867._--We came after a short march to a village on the Molilanga, flowing east into the Looembe, here we meet with bananas for the first time, called, as in Lunda, nkonde.

A few trophies from Mazitu are hung up: Chitapangwa had twenty-four skulls ornamenting his stockade.

The Babemba are decidedly more warlike than any of the tribes south of them: their villages are stockaded, and have deep dry ditches round them, so it is likely that Mochimbe will be effectually checked, and forced to turn his energies to something else than to marauding.
Our man from Moamba here refused to go further, and we were put on the wrong track by the headman wading through three marshes, each at least half a mile broad.

The people of the first village we came to shut their gates on us, then came running after us; but we declined to enter their village: it is a way of showing their independence.

We made our sheds on a height in spite of their protests.