We employed one to go forward and tell Mpande of our coming.

This allayed their fears, and we went ashore, and took breakfast near the large island with two villages on it, opposite the mouth of the Zungwe, where we had left the Zambesi on our way up.

Mpande was sorry that he had no canoes of his own to sell, but he would lend us two.

He gave us cooked pumpkins and a water-melon.

His servant had lateral curvature of the spine.