Our men climbed over and opened them, but I gave the order to move forward through flat forest till we came to a running rivulet of about twenty feet, but with 100 yards of sponge on each side.

The white sand had come out as usual and formed the bottom.

Here we entered a village to pass the night.

We passed mines of fine black iron ore ("motapo"); it is magnetic.
_13th January, 1873._--Storm-stayed by rain and cold at the village on the Rivulet Kalambosi, near the Chambeze.

Never was in such a spell of cold rainy weather except in going to Loanda in 1853.