62 KEBRABASA SURVEY COMPLETED. Chap. II. 



took them three hours' hard labour in cutting theii 

 way up through the dense thornbush which covered the 

 ascent. The face of the slope was often about an angle 

 of 70°, yet their guide Shokumbenla, whose hard, horny 

 soles, resembling those of elephants, showed that he was 

 accustomed to this rough and hot work, carried a pot of 

 water for them nearly all the way up. They slept that 

 night at a well in a tufaceous rock on the N".W. of Chi- 

 pereziwa, and never was sleep more sweet. 



