Ambition of Africans to have a Village--Winters in the
Interior--Spring at Kolobeng--White Ants: "Never could desire
to eat any thing better"--Young Herbage and Animals--Valley of
the Loembwe--The white Man a Hobgoblin--Specimen of
Quarreling--Eager Desire for Calico--Want of Clothing at
Kawawa's--Funeral Observances--Agreeable Intercourse with
Kawawa--His impudent Demand--Unpleasant Parting--Kawawa tries
to prevent our crossing the River Kasai--Stratagem.

Chapter 24. Level Plains--Vultures and other Birds--Diversity
of Color in Flowers of the same Species--The Sundew--Twenty-
seventh Attack of Fever--A River which flows in opposite
Directions--Lake Dilolo the Watershed between the Atlantic and
Indian Oceans--Position of Rocks--Sir Roderick Murchison's
Explanation--Characteristics of the Rainy Season in connection
with the Floods of the Zambesi and the Nile--Probable Reason
of Difference in Amount of Rain South and North of the
Equator--Arab Reports of Region east of Londa--Probable
Watershed of the Zambesi and the Nile--Lake Dilolo--Reach
Katema's Town: his renewed Hospitality; desire to appear like
a White Man; ludicrous Departure--Jackdaws--Ford southern
Branch of Lake Dilolo--Small Fish--Project for a Makololo
Village near the Confluence of the Leeba and the Leeambye--
Hearty Welcome from Shinte--Kolimbota's Wound--Plant-seeds and
Fruit-trees brought from Angola--Masiko and Limboa's Quarrel--
Nyamoana now a Widow--Purchase Canoes and descend the Leeba--
Herds of wild Animals on its Banks--Unsuccessful Buffalo-
hunt--Frogs--Sinbad and the Tsetse--Dispatch a Message to
Manenko--Arrival of her Husband Sambanza--The Ceremony called
Kasendi--Unexpected Fee for performing a surgical Operation--