Chapter 30. An Elephant-hunt--Offering and Prayers to the Barimo for Success--Native Mode of Expression--Working of Game-laws--A Feast--Laughing Hyaenas--Numerous Insects-- Curious Notes of Birds of Song--Caterpillars--Butterflies-- Silica--The Fruit Makoronga and Elephants--Rhinoceros Adventure--Korwe Bird--Its Nest--A real Confinement--Honey and Beeswax--Superstitious Reverence for the Lion--Slow Traveling-- Grapes--The Ue--Monina's Village--Native Names--Government of the Banyai--Electing a Chief--Youths instructed in "Bonyai"-- Suspected of Falsehood--War-dance--Insanity and Disappearance of Monahin--Fruitless Search--Monina's Sympathy--The Sand- river Tangwe--The Ordeal Muavi: its Victims--An unreasonable Man--"Woman's Rights"--Presents--Temperance--A winding Course to shun Villages--Banyai Complexion and Hair--Mushrooms--The Tubers, Mokuri--The Tree Shekabakadzi--Face of the Country-- Pot-holes--Pursued by a Party of Natives--Unpleasant Threat-- Aroused by a Company of Soldiers--A civilized Breakfast-- Arrival at Tete. Chapter 31. Kind Reception from the Commandant--His Generosity to my Men--The Village of Tete--The Population--Distilled Spirits--The Fort--Cause of the Decadence of Portuguese Power-- Former Trade--Slaves employed in Gold-washing--Slave-trade drained the Country of Laborers--The Rebel Nyaude's Stockade-- He burns Tete--Kisaka's Revolt and Ravages--Extensive Field of Sugar-cane--The Commandant's good Reputation among the Natives--Providential Guidance--Seams of Coal--A hot Spring-- Picturesque Country--Water-carriage to the Coal-fields-- Workmen's Wages--Exports--Price of Provisions--Visit Gold- washings--The Process of obtaining the precious Metal--Coal within a Gold-field--Present from Major Sicard--Natives raise Wheat, etc.--Liberality of the Commandant--Geographical Information from Senhor Candido--Earthquakes--Native Ideas of a Supreme Being--Also of the Immortality and Transmigration of Souls--Fondness for Display at Funerals--Trade Restrictions-- Former Jesuit Establishment--State of Religion and Education at Tete--Inundation of the Zambesi--Cotton cultivated--The fibrous Plants Conge and Buaze--Detained by Fever--The Kumbanzo Bark--Native Medicines--Iron, its Quality--Hear of Famine at Kilimane--Death of a Portuguese Lady--The Funeral-- Disinterested Kindness of the Portuguese.