162 CAPE MACLEAR. 



take me to the point of Cape Maclear, where the 

 Island Domwe ahnost joins the mainland, and wait 

 there while I walked round the shore. Malourie (one 

 of the Makololos) accoDipanied me ; but game seemed 

 to have deserted this part entirely during the summer. 

 There was nothing to be seen. 



Arriving at the end of the sandy beach, the point 

 of Cape Maclear rose abruptly from the lake to a 

 height of some hundred feet. I endeavoured to reach 

 the top in order to get a reading of one aneroid, while 

 I left the other below, but it was quite impossible. I 

 never saw such huge masses of rock piled up in the 

 way they are here. I only succeeded in reaching 

 an altitude of six hundred feet, when I could get no 

 further, and had to return. From where I did get 

 to, the view of Nyassa was magnificent. Directly 

 under me, bearing north, and to the west, the w^ater 

 was smooth and blue; while to the south-east the 

 lake bore a totally different appearance. Its waters, 

 driven by a fierce south-east wind, were break- 

 ing with fury along the western shore, and dashing 

 the spray to a great height against the precipitous 

 cliffs, which I perceived plainly with the naked eye to 

 the southward of my position. I saw the Search sailing 

 quietly along, till, passing between the island and 

 mainland, she rounded the cape, and suddenly find- 

 ing herself in a high sea, and with a head wind, put 

 back for shelter, and anchored in a small nook close 

 under where I stood. 



I now returned to the boat. In the afternoon the 

 gale went suddenly down, and a fair wind from the 

 north-west springing as suddenly up, w^e were off in an 



