M'toka left nearly all his guns behind him; his allies, the Malongwana, had previously made their escape.

It is two months since this rout, so we have been prevented by a kind Providence from coming soon enough.

He was impudent and extortionate before, and much more now that he has been emboldened by success in plundering.
_16th November, 1872._--After waiting some time for the men I sent men back yesterday to look after the sick donkey, they arrived, but the donkey died this morning.

Its death was evidently caused by tsetse bite and bad usage by one of the men, who kept it forty-eight hours without water.

The rain, no doubt, helped to a fatal end; it is a great loss to me.
_17th November, 1872._--We went on along the bottom of a high ridge that flanks the Lake on the west, and then turned up south-east to a village hung on the edge of a deep chasm in which flows the Aeezy.
_18th November, 1872._--We were soon overwhelmed in a pouring rain, and had to climb up the slippery red path which is parallel and near to Mbette's.