XV.] SLOW PROGRESS.— COAL. 189 



After clearing the reeds, we skirted along a beach under March, 

 Karyan Gwina, crowded with people bathing, tilling water-pots, ■^^'^*- 

 looking after their iishing-gear, or staring at the passing boats. 

 We then came to low cliffs formed of granite, porphyry, 

 sandstone, and rotten clay — with many land -slips and caves, 

 caused by the beating of the waves — and ran into the Luguvu 

 under more cliffs, formed by a line of large hills. 



My men's dread of facing a little wind and sea detained us 

 here a whole day ; for, if forced to go on, they were just in the 

 humor to have done their utmost to make difficulties, in order 

 to prove that they were right in objecting to start. 



Hippopotami, crocodiles, and monkeys were here in abun- 

 dance, and but for my lameness this halt would not have been 

 so tiresome. My feet and legs were, however, covered with 

 boils that prevented my going out shooting, or even leaving the 

 boat. Getting away from here, we passed close under nearly 

 vertical cliffs of sandstone and black marble streaked with white, 

 and after a time a great patch of what, from the appearance of 

 the cleavage, I believe to have been coal. 



When the East -coast men saw it, they called out '"''Makaa 

 maril'ehu^'' — ship -coal. The thickness of the principal seam, 

 which lay on the top of synclinal curves of rock of which the 

 anticlinal curves had been worn away, was between fifteen and 

 eighteen feet. Although unable to obtain a specimen of coal 

 from this particular spot, some was afterward given me which 

 came from Itawa, in the same latitude, and a short distance to 

 the westward of the lake. This was undoubtedly a light bitu- 

 minous coal. 



Passing several streams and toiTcnts, we came to the termi- 

 nation of the cliffs at river Makanyazi. Here the guides said 

 there were large quantities of honey ; but as it was under the 

 protection of an evil spirit, none was to be collected, lest he 

 should do us some injury, and not one of the men could be per- 

 suaded to gather any. 



Just as we landed, I noticed the scaly back of a crocodile 

 among the grass, and, seizing my rifle, put two bullets into him, 

 killing him at once. On clearing away the grass round him, 

 he turned out to be only a small one about four feet long. 



Hippopotami, blowing and snoi'ting, kept us awake all night, 



