They attain large size, have soft wood, and succulent leaves; the roots intertwine in the mud, and one has to watch that he does not step where no roots exist, otherwise he sinks up to the thigh.

In a village the people feel that we are on their property, and crowd upon us inconveniently; but outside, where we usually erect our sheds, no such feeling exists, we are each on a level, and they don't take liberties.
The Balungu are marked by three or four little knobs on the temples, and the lobes of the ears are distended by a piece of wood, which is ornamented with beads; bands of beads go across the forehead and hold up the hair.
Chibue's village is at the source of the Lokwena, which goes N.and N.E.; a long range of low hills is on our N.E., which are the Mambwe, or part of them.

The Chambeze rises in them, but further south.

Here the Lokwena, round whose source we came on starting this morning to avoid wet feet, and all others north and west of this, go to the Lofu or Lobu, and into Liemba Lake.

Those from the hills on our right go east into the Loanzu and so into the Lake.
_15th March, 1867._--We now are making for Kasonso, the chief of the Lake, and a very large country all around it, passing the Lochenje, five yards wide, and knee deep, then to the Chanumba.