Guides refused to come as Chitunkue, their headman, did not own them.

We started alone: a man came after us and tried to mislead us in vain.
_22nd January, 1873._--We pushed on through many deserted gardens and villages, the man evidently sent to lead us astray from our S.E.

course; he turned back when he saw that we refused his artifice.

Crossed another rivulet, possibly the Lofu, now broad and deep, and then came to another of several deep streams but sponge, not more than fifty feet in all.
Here we remained, having travelled in fine drizzling rain all the morning.

Population all gone from the war of Chitoka with this Chitunkue.
No astronomical observations worth naming during December and January; impossible to take any, owing to clouds and rain.
It is trying beyond measure to be baffled by the natives lying and misleading us wherever they can.