No guide would come, so we went on without one.

The "lazies" of the party seized the opportunity of remaining behind--wandering, as they said, though all the cross paths were marked.[36] This evening we secured the latitude 12 deg.

40' 48" S., which would make our crossing place about 12 deg.

45' S.Clouds prevented observations, as they usually do in the rainy season.
_17 December, 1866._--We went on through a bushy country without paths, and struck the Pamazi, a river of sixty yards wide, in steep banks and in flood, and held on as well as we could through a very difficult country, the river forcing us north-west: I heard hippopotami in it.

Game is abundant but wild; we shot two poku antelopes[37] here, called "tsebulas," which drew a hunter to us, who consented for meat and pay to show us a ford.