20' 05" S.
_10th June, 1866._--A very heavy march through the same kind of country, no human habitation appearing; we passed a dead body--recently, it was said, starved to death.

The large tract between Makochera's and our next station at Ngozo hill is without any perennial stream; water is found often by digging in the sand streams which we several times crossed; sometimes it was a trickling rill, but I suspect that at other seasons all is dry, and people are made dependent on the Rovuma alone.

The first evidence of our being near the pleasant haunts of man was a nice little woman drawing water at a well.

I had become separated from the rest: on giving me water she knelt down, and, as country manners require, held it up to me with _both_ hands.

I had been misled by one of the carriers, who got confused, though the rounded mass of Ngozo was plainly visible from the heights we crossed east of it.
An Arab party bolted on hearing of our approach: they don't trust the English, and this conduct increases our importance among the natives.
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