They contain no fish, except very small ones--probably fry.

On the other, or western side of the ridge, near which "Malemba" is situated, fish abound worth catching.
[Illustration: Chitapangwa] Chitapangwa, or Motoka, as he is also called, sent to inquire if we wanted an audience.

"We must take something in our hands the first time we came before so great a man." Being tired from marching, I replied, "Not till the evening," and sent notice at 5 P.M.of my coming.

We passed through the inner stockade, and then on to an enormous hut, where sat Chitapangwa, with three drummers and ten or more men, with two rattles in their hands.

The drummers beat furiously, and the rattlers kept time to the drums, two of them advancing and receding in a stooping posture, with rattles near the ground, as if doing the chief obeisance, but still keeping time with the others.