The slaves are said to be generally criminals, and are sold in revenge or as punishment.

Kapika's wife had an ornament of the end of a shell called the cone; it was borrowed and she came away with it in her hair: the owner, without making any effort to recover it, seized one of Kapika's daughters as a pledge that Kapika would exert himself to get it back! [At last the tedious delay came to an end and we must now follow the Doctor on his way south to discover Lake Bemba.] _11th June, 1868._--Crossed the Mbereze, ten yards broad and thigh deep, ascending a range of low hills of hardened sandstone, covered, as the country generally is, with forest.

Our course S.E.and S.S.E.
Then descended into a densely-wooded valley, having a rivulet four yards wide and knee deep.

Buffaloes and elephants very numerous.
_12th June, 1868._--We crossed the Mbereze again twice; then a very deep narrow rivulet, and stopped at another in a mass of trees, where we spend the night, and killing an ox remained next day to eat it.
When at Kanengwa a small party of men came past, shouting as if they had done something of importance: on going to them, I found that two of them carried a lion slung to a pole.

It was a small maneless variety, called "the lion of _Nyassi_," or long grass.