We hurried on as fast as we could to the Luatize, our last stage before getting to Mataka's; this stream is rapid, about forty yards wide, waist deep, with many podostemons on the bottom.

The country gets more and more undulating and is covered with masses of green foliage, chiefly Masuko trees, which have large hard leaves.

There are hippopotami further down the river on its way to the Loendi.

A little rice which had been kept for me I divided, but some did not taste food.
_13th July, 1866._--A good many stragglers behind, but we push on to get food and send it back to them.

The soil all reddish clay, the roads baked hard by the sun, and the feet of many of us are weary and sore: a weary march and long, for it is perpetually up and down now.