. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. hakespeare to the fiames, heaping thebrush-fuel over it with ceremonious care. Ah-h-h, breathed tne poor deluded natives, sighingtheir relief. The Mundele is good—is very good. Heloves his Mowa friends. There is no trouble now, Mowa people are not bad. And something approachingto a cheer was shouted among them, which terminated theepisode of the Burning of Shakespeare. The boat had been in a leaky condition ever since shehad re
. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. hakespeare to the fiames, heaping thebrush-fuel over it with ceremonious care. Ah-h-h, breathed tne poor deluded natives, sighingtheir relief. The Mundele is good—is very good. Heloves his Mowa friends. There is no trouble now, Mowa people are not bad. And something approachingto a cheer was shouted among them, which terminated theepisode of the Burning of Shakespeare. The boat had been in a leaky condition ever since shehad received the shock at the Upper Mowa, and her constantportage by the falls of the Livingstone, the constant changefrom dry heat to wet, had almost ruined her, yet we persistedin caulking and repairing her. Some of the natives, observingmy anxiety to render her water-tight, offered to bring me asubstance which, they said, would be effectual for the a few hours they had brought me a mixture of india-rubberand pakn-butter. We experimented with it instantly, but itwas a very poor substitute for pitch, and I expressed mydissatisfaction with e2 - X 1S7T.] TEE BEES OF MASSASSA. IjOI jffin> 1.—Thcu a nephew of Manwana offered to show hisfriend Kacheche something else which wouhl be much , the next morning, at 10 of the 1st of June,Kacheche and the native brought about thirty pounds ofbees-wax, a very dark substance, which, had it not been forthe diminutive bees which clung to it, might have beenmistaken for pitch. Subsequently I proceeded myself to thesource of the supply, and discovered about a hundredweightof bees-wax attached to a lofty fragment of rock nearMassassa Falls. These bees are of a dark brown colour,short and dumpy, about one-half the length of the ordinaryhoney-bee. At several places between Massassa and Mowathere were similar large secretions of wax on the cliffyrocks. Another valuable article of commerce besides the bees-wax
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