The Country Through Which The Lolo Flows
Is Said To Be Flat, Fertile, Well Peopled, And There Are
Large Patches Of Forest.
In this report he agreed perfectly
with the people of Matiamvo, whom we had met at Quendende's village.
But we never could get him, or any one in this quarter, to draw a map
on the ground, as people may readily be got to do in the south.
Katema promised us the aid of some of his people as carriers,
but his rule is not very stringent or efficient, for they refused to turn out
for the work. They were Balobale; and he remarked on their disobedience that,
though he received them as fugitives, they did not feel grateful enough
to obey, and if they continued rebellious he must drive them back
whence they came; but there is little fear of that, as all the chiefs
are excessively anxious to collect men in great numbers around them.
These Balobale would not go, though our guide Shakatwala
ran after some of them with a drawn sword. This degree of liberty to rebel
was very striking to us, as it occurred in a country where people may be sold,
and often are so disposed of when guilty of any crime;
and we well knew that open disobedience like this among the Makololo
would be punished with death without much ceremony.
On Sunday, the 19th, both I and several of our party were seized with fever,
and I could do nothing but toss about in my little tent,
with the thermometer above 90 Deg., though this was the beginning of winter,
and my men made as much shade as possible by planting branches of trees
all round and over it.
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