. bag of flour and some cooked meat, anextremely welcome offering indeed ! Matakas town was found to consist of about a thousandhouses, and around it clustered many small villages. All aboutthem were mountains, clothed in lovely green. It was a verybeautiful spot, and though only recently selected the people ofthis chief were already entirely at home. It must be under-stood that towns may spring up in a night almost in a countrywhere all the structures are so simple and temporary; an entiretribe may settle comfortably with almost as
. bag of flour and some cooked meat, anextremely welcome offering indeed ! Matakas town was found to consist of about a thousandhouses, and around it clustered many small villages. All aboutthem were mountains, clothed in lovely green. It was a verybeautiful spot, and though only recently selected the people ofthis chief were already entirely at home. It must be under-stood that towns may spring up in a night almost in a countrywhere all the structures are so simple and temporary; an entiretribe may settle comfortably with almost as much despatch asan army can pitch its tents. The famous chieftain, Mataka,kept his visitor waiting some time on the verandah of his house,but when he made his appearance his good-natured face waswreathed in smiles. He was about sixty, dressed as an Arab,and too good-humored to conceal his enjoyment of a good laugh;and it was not long before he had the weary traveller snuglyset up in a square house like his own, where we will allow hima little breathing , etc CHAPTER XXI. APPROACHING NYAsSA. A Guest of Mataka—The Waiyan—Livingstone and the Arabs—The Town ofMocrabe—Iron Smelting Causes of Desolation -Waiyan DesoribeeWLiving-stones Desires Slave-Trade: Doeail l senl back—Moon tains— Springs—Iron—Approaching Kyassa—Livingstones Review of nil Route—The Watershed Geological Formations Kindness of the People— The SingleCurse—An Example of Christiana inconvenience of being English Arabsas Settlers—A Doubtful Question Settled Pota Mimba—Around the Foot ofthe Lake—No Earthquake Known- Sites of Old Villages Brooks The FirstEhtropean Seen—God Took Him -Wikatani Finds Relatives—Salt-Making—Eighty-five Slaves io ? Pen—Work BLonorabla In our comfortable homes, surrounded by the conveniencesand extravagances afforded by culture and wealth, the prospectof two weeks recreation In an African village where no white man had ever been before, with onl
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