rich, healthy country — I constantly made exploring and shooting expeditions during my stay, and had very good sport.

On the 16tli October Scherlink and I decided to start for Kolomoni's town on the Lurimbi River. Our reasons for making this decision were several: food was, we heard, very plentiful there, and our host Lupungu either had no supplies or was unwilling to give us any. The men, too, were complaining; and de Heusch, having finished the big house he was making, all but the floor and walls, had begun to bring into camp large quantities of freshly dug sandy clay for this purpose. As a consequence of the newly-turned soil being in our vicinity, we were all out of health, and several of the blacks, with Scherlink and Cerkel, had fever.

The injurious effect of newly-turned