This took us five hours, and then with 2-1/4 more hours we reach Sintila.

We hasten along as fast as hungry men (four of them sick) can go to get food.
_1th December, 1872._--Off at 6.15 A.M.A leopard broke in upon us last night and bit a woman.

She screamed, and so did the donkey, and it ran off.

Our course lay along between two ranges of low hills, then, where they ended, we went by a good-sized stream thirty yards or so across, and then down into a valley to Kafimbe's.
_8th December, 1872._--Very heavy rains.

I visited Kafimbe.