CHAPTER IX.
The waterbuck--Disaster in Kebrabasa rapids--The "Ma Robert" founders--Arrival of the "Pioneer" and Bishop Mackenzie's party--Portuguese slave-trade--Interference and liberation.
We arrived at Zumbo, at the mouth of the Loangwa, on the 1st of November.
The water being scarcely up to the knee, our land party waded this river with ease.

A buffalo was shot on an island opposite Pangola's, the ball lodging in the spleen.

It was found to have been wounded in the same organ previously, for an iron bullet was imbedded in it, and the wound entirely healed.

A great deal of the plant _Pistia stratiotes_ was seen floating in the river.

Many people inhabit the right bank about this part, yet the game is very abundant.
As we were taking our breakfast on the morning of the 2nd, the Mambo Kazai, of whom we knew nothing, and his men came with their muskets and large powder-horns to levy a fine, and obtain payment for the wood we used in cooking.