Near sunset we encamped by water on the cool height, and made our shelters with boughs of leafy trees; mine was rendered perfect by Dr.Stenhouse's invaluable patent cloth, which is very superior to mackintosh: indeed the india-rubber cloth is not to be named in the same day with it.
_28th December, 1866._--Three men, going to hunt bees, came to us as we were starting and assured us that Moerwa's was near.

The first party had told us the same thing, and so often have we gone long distances as "_pafupi_" (near), when in reality they were "_patari_" (far), that we begin to think _pafupi_ means "I wish you to go there," and _patari_ the reverse.

In this case _near_ meant an hour and three-quarters from our sleeping-place to Moerwa's! When we look back from the height to which we have ascended we see a great plain clothed with dark green forest except at the line of yellowish grass, where probably the Loangwa flows.

On the east and south-east this plain is bounded at the extreme range of our vision by a wall of dim blue mountains forty or fifty miles off.

The Loangwa is said to rise in the Chibale country due north of this Malambwe (in which district Moerwa's village is situated), and to flow S.E., then round to where we found it.
Moerwa came to visit me in my hut, a rather stupid man, though he has a well-shaped and well-developed forehead, and tried the usual little arts of getting us to buy all we need here though the prices are exorbitant.