Occasionally stopping at their villages we were duly lullilooed, and regaled with sweet new-made beer, which, being yet unfermented, was not intoxicating.

It is in this state called Liting or Makonde.

Some of the men carry large shields of buffalo- hide, and all are well supplied with heavy spears.

The vicinity of the villages is usually cleared and cultivated in large patches; but nowhere can the country be said to be stocked with people.

At every village stands were erected, and piles of the native corn, still unthrashed, placed upon them; some had been beaten out, put into oblong parcels made of grass, and stacked in wooden frames.
We crossed several rivulets in our course, as the Mandora, the Lofia, the Manzaia (with brackish water), the Rimbe, the Chibue, the Chezia, the Chilola (containing fragments of coal), which did little more than mark our progress.