Three or four tin canisters containing some calomel, Dover's powder, colocynth, and, above all, a supply of quinine, can be distributed in different packages, and then, if a mishap occurs similar to that which Livingstone relates, the disaster is not beyond remedy.] * * * * * _20th January, 1867._--A guide refused, so we marched without one.

The two Waiyau, who joined us at Kande's village, now deserted.

They had been very faithful all the way, and took our part in every case.
Knowing the language well, they were extremely useful, and no one thought that they would desert, for they were free men--their masters had been killed by the Mazitu--and this circumstance, and their uniform good conduct, made us trust them more than we should have done any others who had been slaves.

But they left us in the forest, and heavy rain came on, which obliterated every vestige of their footsteps.

To make the loss the more galling, they took what we could least spare--the medicine-box, which they would only throw away as soon as they came to examine their booty.