Cloth here is more valuable, inasmuch as bark-cloth is scarce.

The skins of goats and wild animals are used, and the kilt is very diminutive among the women.
_22nd March, 1867._--Cross Loela, thirty feet wide and one deep, and meet with tsetse fly, though we have seen none since we left Chitapangwa's.

Kasonso gave us a grand reception, and we saw men present from Tanganyika; I saw cassava here, but not in plenty.
_28th March, 1867._--Set-in rain and Chuma fell ill.

There are cotton bushes of very large size here of the South American kind.

After sleeping in various villages and crossing numerous streams, we came to Mombo's village, near the ridge overlooking the Lake.
_31st March, and 1st April, 1867._--I was too ill to march through.