Description of the people and country on the west of the Lake.
The Kanthundas. Kauma. Iron-smelting. An African Sir Colin
Campbell. Milandos.

CHAPTER VI.

Progress northwards. An African forest. Destruction by Mazitu.
Native salutations. A disagreeable chief. On the watershed
between the Lake and the Loangwa River. Extensive iron-workings.
An old Nimrod. The Bua River. Lovely scenery. Difficulties of
transport. Chilobé. An African Pythoness. Enlists two Waiyou
bearers. Ill. The Chitella bean. Rains set in. Arrives at the
Loangwa.

CHAPTER VII.

Crosses the Loangwa. Distressing march. The king-hunter. Great
hunger. Christmas feast necessarily postponed. Loss of goats.
Honey-hunters. A meal at last. The Babisa. The Mazitu again.
Chitembo's. End of 1866. The new year. The northern brim of the
great Loangwa Valley. Accident to chronometers. Meal gives out.
Escape from a Cobra capella. Pushes for the Chambezé. Death of
Chitané. Great pinch for food. Disastrous loss of medicine
chest. Bead currency. Babisa. The Chambezé. Reaches
Chitapangwa's town. Meets Arab traders from Zanzibar. Sends off
letters. Chitapangwa and his people. Complications.

CHAPTER VIII.

Chitapangwa's parting oath. Course laid for Lake Tanganyika.