CHAPTER III.
The Steamer in difficulties--Elephant hunting--Arrival at Chibisa's--Search for Lake Nyassa--The Manganja country--Weavers and smelters--Lake Pamalombe.
Late in the afternoon of the first day's steaming, after we left the wooding-place, we called at the village of Chikanda-Kadze, a female chief, to purchase rice for our men; but we were now in the blissful region where time is absolutely of no account, and where men may sit down and rest themselves when tired; so they requested us to wait till next day, and they would then sell us some food.

As our forty black men, however, had nothing to cook for supper, we were obliged to steam on to reach a village a few miles above.

When we meet those who care not whether we purchase or let it alone, or who think men ought only to be in a hurry when fleeing from an enemy, our ideas about time being money, and the power of the purse, receives a shock.

The state of eager competition, which in England wears out both mind and body, and makes life bitter, is here happily unknown.

The cultivated spots are mere dots compared to the broad fields of rich soil which is never either grazed or tilled.