536 LOW HILLS. Chap. XXVII. 



CHAPTEE XXVII. 



Low hills — Black soliier-ants ; their cannibalism — The plasterer and its 

 chloroform — White ants, their usefulness — Mutokwane-smoking ; its 

 effects — Border territory — Healthy table-lands — Geological formation 



— Cicadre — Trees — Flowers — River Kalomo — Physical conformation 

 of country — Ridges, sanatoria — A wounded buffalo assisted — Buffalo- 

 bird — Rhinoceros-bird — Leaders of herds — The honey-guide — The 

 White Mountain — Mozuma river — Sebituane's old home — Hostile 

 village — Prophetic frenzy — - Food of the elephant — Ant-hills — Friendly 

 Batoka — Clothing despised — Method of salutation — Wild fruits — The 

 captive released — Longings for peace — Pingola's conquests — The village 

 of Monze — Aspect of the country — Visit from the chief Monze and his 

 wife — Central healthy stations — Friendly feelings of the people in 

 reference to a white resident — Fertility of the soil — Bashukulompo 

 mode of dressing their hair — Gratitude of the prisoner we released — 

 Kindness and remarks of Monze's sister — Dip of the rocks — Vegetation 



— Generosity of the inhabitants — Their anxiety for medicine — Hooping- 

 cough — Birds and rain. 



November 27th. — Still at Marimba's. In the adjacent country 

 palms abound, but none of that species which yields the oil; 

 indeed that is met with only near the coast. There are numbers 

 of flowers and bulbs just shooting up from the soil. The surface is 

 rough and broken into gullies ; and though the country is parched, 

 it has not that appearance, so many trees having put forth their 

 fresh green leaves at the time the rains ought to have come. 

 Among the rest, stands the mola, with its dark brownish-green 

 colour and spreading oak-like form. In the distance there are 

 ranges of low hills. On the north we have one caEed Kanjele, 

 and to the east that of Kaonka, to winch we proceed to-morrow. 

 We have made a considerable de'tour to the north, both on account 

 of our wish to avoid the tsetse, and to visit the people. Those 

 of Kaonka are the last Batoka we shall meet, in friendship with 

 the Makololo. 



Walking down to the forest, after telling these poor people, for 

 the first time in their lives, that the Son of God had so loved them 

 as to come down from heaven to save them, I observed many 



