CHAPTER VI.
Illness--The Honey-guide--Abundance of game--The Baenda pezi--The Batoka.
We left the river here, and proceeded up the valley which leads to the Mburuma or Mohango pass.

The nights were cold, and on the 30th of June the thermometer was as low as 39 degrees at sunrise.

We passed through a village of twenty large huts, which Sequasha had attacked on his return from the murder of the chief, Mpangwe.

He caught the women and children for slaves, and carried off all the food, except a huge basket of bran, which the natives are wont to save against a time of famine.

His slaves had broken all the water-pots and the millstones for grinding meal.
The buaze-trees and bamboos are now seen on the hills; but the jujube or zisyphus, which has evidently been introduced from India, extends no further up the river.