CHAPTER VI. 
Return to Tati — Changed aspect of the country — Constant delays — 
The Mashonas — At Manyami's again — John Lee's — Letter home 
— The Inkwesi — Wild fruit — A-hornbill's nest — The Impakwe and 
Ramaqueban Rivers — Graves of Englishmen — White ants — 
Bushman remains — The Tati reached. 
Frank Oates's plan on leaving Gubuleweyo was to 
return slowly, by way of Tati, to Bamangwato, there 
to prepare himself with a fresh outfit of goods and 
other necessaries for a renewed attempt to reach the 
Zambesi early in the year ; unless on his arrival 
there he should find letters which required his return 
to England. As it was yet too soon to think of 
making at once for the Zambesi, he took his time 
upon the road to Tati, not arriving there till near 
the end of February. He stopped to hunt some 
time upon the Ramaqueban, and, the whole journey, 
progress was inevitably slow, owing to the heavy 
state of the country from the recent rains. The 
waggon was constantly sticking, and delays were 
endless. The route taken was the same as that by 
which he had come to Gubuleweyo, but the country 
was now rendered so much more attractive with the 
advancing season, that some extracts may be given 
from the Journal. 
