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Native salutations. A disagreeable chief. On the watershed between the Lake and the Loangwa River. Extensive iron-workings. An old Nimrod. The Bua Eiver. Lovely scenery. Difficulties of transport. Chilobé. An African Pythoness. Enlists two Waiyou bearers. Ill. The Chitella bean. Rains set in. Arrives at the Loangwa.
Our chief danger was the wind, a very slight ripple being sufficient to swamp canoes. The waterbuck Disaster in Kebrabasa rapids The "Ma Robert" founders Arrival of the "Pioneer" and Bishop Mackenzie's party Portuguese slave-trade Interference and liberation. We arrived at Zumbo, at the mouth of the Loangwa, on the 1st of November.
All the Arabs flee from me, the English name being in their minds inseparably connected with recapturing slavers: they cannot conceive that I have any other object in view; they cannot read Seyed Majid's letter. 21st August, 1866. Started for the Loangwa, on the east side of the Lake; hilly all the way, about seven miles.
Looking backward we see a mass of high, dark mountains, covered with trees; behind us rises the fine high hill Mazanzwe, which stretches away northward along the left bank of the Loangwa; to the S.E. lies an open country, with a small round hill in the distance called Tofulo.
Meets Arab traders from Zanzibar. Sends off letters. Chitapangwa and his people. Complications. 16th December, 1866. We could get no food at any price on 15th, so we crossed the Loangwa, and judged it to be from seventy to a hundred yards wide: it is deep at present, and it must always be so, for some Atumboka submitted to the Mazitu, and ferried them over and back again.
I did not intend to notice the Lokuzhwa, it is such a contemptible little rill, and not at present running; but in going to our next point, Mpandé's village, we go along its valley, and cross it several times, as it makes for the Loangwa in the north.
On the 26th June we breakfasted at Zumbo, on the left bank of the Loangwa, near the ruins of some ancient Portuguese houses. The Loangwa was too deep to be forded, and there were no canoes on our side. Seeing two small ones on the opposite shore, near a few recently erected huts of two half-castes from Tette, we halted for the ferry-men to come over.
He was in great danger from the hostile tribes at the union of the Zambesi and Loangwa, and there was something about his spontaneous utterance which appealed very strongly to Erica. "Felt much turmoil of spirit in view of having all my plans for the welfare of this great region and teeming population knocked on the head by savages tomorrow.
Our guide would have crossed the Tokosusi, which was running north-west to join the Loangwa, and then gone to that river; but always when we have any difficulty the "lazies" exhibit themselves. We had no grain; and three remained behind spending four hours at what we did in an hour and a quarter.
Kowé! kowé! n'andambwi, M'vula léru, korolé ko okwé, Waie, ona, kordi, mvula! He cannot translate it as it is pure Manganja, but with the exception of the first line which relates to a little song-bird with a beautiful note, it is a mere reiteration "rain will surely come to-day." Crosses the Loangwa. Distressing march. The king-hunter. Great hunger. Christmas feast necessarily postponed.
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