I drank a little, and seeing me desist from taking more, he asked if I wished a servant-girl to "_pata mimba_." Not knowing what was meant, I offered the girl the calabash of beer, and told her to drink, but this was not the intention.

He asked if I did not wish more; and then took the vessel, and as he drank the girl performed the operation on himself.

Placing herself in front, she put both hands round his waist below the short ribs, and pressing gradually drew them round to his belly in front.
He took several prolonged draughts, and at each she repeated the operation, as if to make the liquor go equally over the stomach.

Our topers don't seem to have discovered the need for this.
_5th September, 1866._--Our march is along the shore to Ngombo promontory, which approaches so near to Senga or Tsenga opposite, as to narrow the Lake to some sixteen or eighteen miles.

It is a low sandy point, the edge fringed on the north-west and part of the south with a belt of papyrus and reeds; the central parts wooded.