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pelvis : the grey buffalo has been sick, but this I attribute 

 to unmerciful loading ; for his back is hurt : the camels do 

 not seem to feel the fly, though they get weaker from the 

 horrid running sores upon them and hard work. There 

 are no symptoms of tsetse in mules or donkeys, but one 

 mule has had his shoulder sprained, and he cannot stoop to 

 eat or drink. 



We saw the last of the flanking range on the north. The 

 country in front is plain, with a few detached granitic peaks 

 shot up. The Makoa in large numbers live at the end of 

 the range in a place called Nyuchi. At Nyamba, a village 

 where we spent the night of the 5th, was a doctoress and 

 rain-maker, who presented a large basket of soroko, or, as 

 they call it in India, " mung," and a fowl. She is tall and 

 well made, with fine limbs and feet, and was profusely 

 tattooed all over; even her hips and buttocks had their 

 elaborate markings : no shame is felt in exposing these 

 parts. 



A good deal of salt is made by lixiviation of the soil and 

 evaporating by fire. The head woman had a tame khanga 

 tole or tufted guinea-fowl, with bluish instead of white 

 spots. 



In passing along westwards after leaving the end of the 

 range, we came first of all on sandstone hardened by fire ; 

 then masses of granite, as if in that had been contained the 

 igneous agency of partial metamorphosis ; it had also lifted 

 up the sandstone, so as to cause a dip to the east. Then the 

 syenite or granite seemed as if it had been melted, for it 

 was all in strise, which strise, as they do elsewhere, run east 

 and west. With the change in geological structure we get 

 a different vegetation. Instead of the laurel-leaved trees of 

 various kinds, we have African ebonies, acacias, and mimosse : 

 the grass is shorter and more sparse, and we can move along 

 without wood-cutting. We were now opposite a hill on the 

 south called Simba, a lion, from its supposed resemblance to 



