Another died at Kwihara with every symptom of tsetse poison fully developed.
[The above remarks on the susceptibility of the donkey to the bite of the tsetse fly are exceedingly important.

Hitherto Dr.Livingstone had always maintained, as the result of his own observations, that this animal, at all events, could be taken through districts in which horses, mules, dogs, and oxen would perish to a certainty.

With the keen perception and perseverance of one who was exploring Africa with a view to open it up for Europeans, he laid great stress on these experiments, and there is no doubt that the distinct result which he here arrived at must have a very significant bearing on the question of travel and transport.
Still passing through the same desolate country, we see that he makes a note on the forsaken fields and the watch-towers in them.

Cucumbers are cultivated in large quantities by the natives of Inner Africa, and the reader will no doubt call to mind the simile adopted by Isaiah some 2500 years ago, as he pictured the coming desolation of Zion, likening her to a "lodge in a garden of cucumbers."[27]] _11th November, 1872._--Over gently undulating country, with many old gardens and watch-houses, some of great height, we reached the River Kalambo, which I know as falling into Tanganyika.

A branch joins it at the village of Mosapasi; it is deep, and has to be crossed by a bridge, whilst the Kalambo is shallow, and say twenty yards wide, but it spreads out a good deal.
[Their journey of the _12th_ and _13th_ led them over low ranges of sandstone and haematite, and past several strongly stockaded villages.
The weather was cloudy and showery--a relief, no doubt, after the burning heat of the last few weeks.