He informed us that the Lake is much the largest at the part called Bangweolo.
The country around the Lake is all flat, and very much denuded of trees, except the Motsikiri or Mosikisi, which has fine dark, dense foliage, and is spared for its shade and the fatty oil yielded by its seeds: we saw the people boiling large pots full of the dark brown fat, which they use to lubricate their hair.

The islands, four in number, are all flat, but well peopled.

The men have many canoes, and are all expert fishermen; they are called Mboghwa, but are marked on the forehead and chin as Babisa, and file the teeth to points.

They have many children, as fishermen usually have.
_21st July, 1868._--Canoe-men are usually extortionate, because one cannot do without them.

Mapuni claims authority over them, and sent to demand another fathom that he may give orders to them to go with us: I gave a hoe and a string of beads instead, but he insisted on the cloth, and kept the hoe too, as I could not afford the time to haggle.
Chipoka spring water at 9 A.M.75 deg.