This village had half a mile of ooze and sludgy marsh in front of it, and a stockade as usual.

We observed that the people had great fear of animals at night, and shut the gates carefully, of even temporary villages.

When at Molemba (Chitapangwa's village) afterwards, two men were killed by a lion, and great fear of crocodiles was expressed by our canoe-man at the Chambeze, when one washed in the margin of that river.

There was evidence of abundance of game, elephants, and buffaloes, but we saw none.
_29th January, 1867._--When near our next stage end we were shown where lightning had struck; it ran down a gum-copal tree without damaging it, then ten yards horizontally, and dividing there into two streams it went up an anthill; the withered grass showed its course very plainly, and next day (31st), on the banks of the Mabula, we saw a dry tree which had been struck; large splinters had been riven off and thrown a distance of sixty yards in one direction and thirty yards in another: only a stump was left, and patches of withered grass where it had gone horizontally.
_30th January, 1867._--Northwards through almost trackless dripping forests and across oozing bogs.
_31st January, 1867._--Through forest, but gardens of larger size than in Lobisa now appear.

A man offered a thick bar of copper for sale, a foot by three inches.