The search was fruitless.

The town and district of Linyanti are surrounded by forests infested by this poisonous insect, except at a few points, as that by which we entered at Sanshureh and another at Sesheke.

But the lands both east and west of the Barotse valley are free from this insect plague.

There, however, the slave-trade had defiled the path, and no one ought to follow in its wake unless well armed.

The Mambari had informed me that many English lived at Loanda, so I prepared to go thither.