A shoal, twenty miles below Chibisa's, checked our further progress, and we lay there five weary weeks, till the permanent rise of the river took place.

During this detention, with a large marsh on each side, the first death occurred in the Expedition which had now been three-and-a-half years in the country.

The carpenter's mate, a fine healthy young man, was seized with fever.

The usual remedies had no effect; he died suddenly while we were at evening prayers, and was buried on shore.

He came out in the "Pioneer," and, with the exception of a slight touch of fever at the mouth of the Rovuma, had enjoyed perfect health all the time he had been with us.