VI.] 



KANYENYfi. 



Kanyenye is a broad depression in tlie centre of Ugogo, prin- 

 cipally remarkable for the inannfacture of salt, large quantities 

 of which are exported to their neighbors. It is scraped from 

 the surface of the earth where patches of salt efflorescence are 

 found, mixed with water and boiled down, and made into cones 

 like sugar-loaves about eighteen inches high. 



From this we moved to great Kanyeny^, crossing a plain 

 studded with baobab-trees, and at a ziwa we noticed a line herd 

 of cattle being watered. The country was almost wholly under 

 cultivation, and numerous tembes were passed on this march. 

 At the entrance to one we noticed many peoj^le suffering from 

 small-pox — the first instance, since leaving the coast, we had 

 seen of this fell disease, which at times sweeps like a devouring 

 fire throughout large portions of Africa. 



July, 



is'zs. 



