It was the work of the Masininga, a Waiyau tribe, of which her people form a part.

They almost depopulated the broad fertile tract, of some three or four miles, between the mountain range and the Lake, along which our course lay.

It was wearisome to see the skulls and bones scattered about everywhere; one would fain not notice them, but they are so striking as one trudges along the sultry path, that it cannot be avoided.
_9th September, 1866._--We spent Sunday at Kandango's village.

The men killed a hippopotamus when it was sleeping on the shore; a full-grown female, 10 feet 9 inches from the snout to the insertion of the tail, and 4 feet 4 inches high at the withers.

The bottom here and all along southwards now is muddy.