306 PROFESSOR SMITH’S JOURNAL. 
August 2. We went to the banza with the officers to take 
our leave. In the meantime Lockhart made an excursion 
to the left between the plain and the hills, and I took the 
opposite side, where I again met with the superb Brownea. 
The visit was unceremonious, and not very hospitable. 
His Majesty did not so much as offer the Captain a mug 
of palm-wine. His dress was that usually worn by the 
natives. He was seated near his house, opposite the 
bench of the officers, surrounded by about fifty negroes. 
I visited their burying-place, where a very deep grave 
had been dug for a woman who had just died, and I pass- 
ed by her house, where half a dozen women were howling 
terribly. ‘They are said to repeat this mode of shewing their 
grief for several days, keeping up the same kind of con- 
cert for about an hour each day. I returned in company 
with my friend Frank Clark (who is the best of all the 
members of the Royal family), to the precipices, by the 
way of Tihenyanga. ‘The rocks consist of a completely 
decomposed quartz, and granular red masses. In some 
places water is continually pouring forth as from springs. 
The temperature under the shade of the thickets is down 
to 70°, probably in consequence of the evaporation. [ 
found several new plants, among which was a shrub bear- 
ing berries, of which I am uncertain whether it be culti- 
vated, but I saw it growing wild all around. I met 
Lockhart, who had collected several beautiful plants. Haw- 
key and Mr. Kerrow returned to the village on a visit to 
the ladies. Tjenu offered another daughter to the Captain 
in addition to the first-mentioned, who was better looking 
