sity compelled us to move, before starvation
overtook us. They would not be convinced that
it was best to struggle on. However, I would
even begin to battle with the falls once more-
and after a little persuasion I succeeded in in-
ducing the boat’s crew to man one of the canoes,
and to take it to the cove whither they had
taken the unfortunate Jason, before they had
been rash enough to listen to a sick man’s impatience.
The feat was successful; the canoe was
lashed to the rocks and a guard of ten men
set over it. This act seemed to encourage the
Wangwana to believe that there was no danger
after all as far, at any rate, as the cove. At
sunset I reached Zinga again, terribly fatigued.
''''June 10.— The full story of the sufferings I
have undergone cannot be written, but is locked
up in a breast that feels the misery into which
I am plunged neck-deep. Oh! Frank, Frank,
you are happy, my friend. Nothing can now
harrow your mind or fatigue your body. You
are at rest for ever and for ever. Would that
I were also! While I was absent yesterday from
Zinga, a man lost to all feeling, Saburi Rehani,
proceeded to steal the cassava of the natives,
which of course raised their ire, and for a period
things were very gloomy this morning. However,
a liberal payment of cloth has quenched
the sulkiness of the Zingaese, and Saburi was
punished. I have now three camps, one at Zinga,
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one at Massassa, and the other at Mowa, and I
waS not able to leave Zinga before noon because
of Saburi’s robbery. The boat’s crew took another
canoe down to Massassa in the afternoon and
at 5 P.M. I was obliged to clamber over the mountains,
walk round Pocock Pool, and down to
Zinga again, where I have just arrived, weak,
fainting, and miserable.
“ June 11.— The body of Frank was found in
Kilanga basin three days ago by a native fisherman,
as it was floating about, but the horrified man
would not touch it. The body was on its back,
the upper part nude, he having torn his shirt
[ away to swim. It is to be regretted that the
i body was thus left to float a dishonoured spectacle;
and Ndala, king of Zinga, also grieves that it was
not brought ashore for respectful burial.
“ June 12.— Crossed again to Massassa, and
four more canoes have been brought to the cove,
without accident.
“ June 13 and 14.— Sick of a fever, but in the
meantime I am gratified to hear that Manwa
Sera has been successful in bringing all the canoes
down to Massassa, and that all the people have
finally left Mowa.
“ June 15.— At early dawn proceeded up the
Zinga mountain, skirted the Pocock Pool, crossed
the Edwin Arnold River , and descended to Massassa.
A grove covered the top of the cliff,
and the axe-men were detailed to cut down
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