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grains, and pine 9 dey lemon and orange trees. They were 
= ee for the shore branches off occasionally and forms 
nds, 
of the hills are cultivated high up. But never having seen 
wropeans before, they looked on us with great suspicion, They 
‘ ey to repel any attack, but no incivility was offered when 
; Ks anded, nor were our wooding party molested. We obtained 
pong may be considered reliable information that the Shire actu- 
Y does flow out of Lake Nyanga. We were brought up by a 
oe but five days beyond this point the water is smooth again, 
Arabs come down in canoes from Nyanga thither. Seeing 
Suspicions we had aroused, we deemed it unsafe to leave the 
and go overland. But no collision took place. The greatest 
ei = fires first, so, thinking we had as much pluck as they, 
ra hot lift a gun, though we were ready to fire, or rather 
We did nothing to make us ashamed to return, and 
re han cotton plaut is met with everywhere, and though 
