of powder among the people of my following to shoot with, and buy goats or other food as we could.

This reduces our extra loads to three--four just now, Simon being sick again.

He rubbed goat's-fat on a blistered surface, and caused an eruption of pimples.
_Mem._--The people assent by lifting up the head instead of nodding it down as we do; deaf mutes are said to do the same.
_22nd November, 1866._--Leaving Mokatoba village, and proceeding down the valley, which on the north is shut up apparently by a mountain called Kokwe, we crossed the Kasamba, about two miles from Mokatoba, and yet found it, though so near its source, four yards wide, and knee deep.

Its source is about a mile above Mokatoba, in the same valley, with the Bua and Tembwe.

We were told that elephants were near, and we saw where they had been an hour before; but after seeking about could not find them.