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nients. It makes these hills look light grey, with patches 

 of black rock at the more perpendicular parts ; the same 

 at about ten miles off look dark blue. The ground is 

 often hard and stony, but all covered over with grass and 

 plants : looking down at it, the grass is in tufts, and like 

 that on the Kalahari desert. Trees show uplands. One 

 tree of which bark cloth is made, pterocarpus, is abundant. 

 Timber-trees appear here and there, but for the most part 

 the growth is stunted, and few are higher than thirty feet. 

 We spent the night by a hill of the usual rounded form, 

 called Njengo. The Eovuma comes close by, but leaves 

 us again to wind among similar great masses. Lat. 

 11° 20' 05" S. 



10th June. — A very heavy march through the same kind 

 of country, no human habitation appearing ; we passed 

 a dead body — recently, it was said, starved to death. The 

 large tract between Makochera's and our next station at 

 Ngozo hill is without any perennial stream ; water is found 

 often by digging in the sand streams which we several 

 times crossed; sometimes it was a trickling rill, but I 

 suspect that at other seasons all is dry, and people are 

 made dependent on the Eovuma alone. The first evidence 

 of our being near the pleasant haunts of man was a nice 

 little wonian drawing water at a well. I had become 

 separated from the rest ; on giving me water she knelt 

 doAvn, and, as country manners require, held it up to me 

 with both hands. I had been misled by one of the carriers, 

 who got confused, though the rounded mass of Ngozo was 

 plainly visible from the heights we crossed east of it. 



An Arab party bolted on hearing of our approach : they 

 don't trust the English, and this conduct increases our im- 

 portance among the natives. Lat. 11° 18' 10" S. 



11th June. — Our carriers refuse to go further, because 

 they say that they fear being captured here on their return. 



12th June. — I paid off the carriers, and wait for a set 



