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Auo;ust 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 imceremonious, 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 

 wilh 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. I 

 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, Avho 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 



