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of fig : its fruit was just forming, but it was too high for 

 me to ascertain its species. The natives don't eat the fruit, 

 but they eat the large grubs which come out of it. The 

 leaves were fifteen inches long by five broad : they call it 

 Unguengo. 



29th July. — At Magola's village. Although we are now 

 rid of the sepoys, we cannot yet congratulate ourselves on 

 being rid of the lazy habits of lying down in the path 

 which they introduced. A strong scud comes up from the 

 south bringing much moisture with it: it blows so hard 

 above, this may be a storm on the coast. Temperature in 

 mornings 55°. 



30th July. — A short march brought us to Pezimba's 

 village, which consists of 200 houses and huts. It is placed 

 very nicely on a knoll between two burns, which, as usual, 

 are made use of for irrigating peas in winter time. The 

 headman said that if we left now we had a good piece of 

 jungle before us, and would sleep twice in it before reaching 

 Mbanga. We therefore remained. An Arab party, hearing 

 of our approach, took a circuitous route among the moun- 

 tains to avoid coming in _ contact with us. In travelling to 

 Pezimba's we had commenced our western descent to the 

 Lake, for we were now lower than Magola's by 300 feet. We 

 crossed many rivulets and the Lochesi, a good-sized stream. 

 The watershed parts some streams for Loendi and some for 

 Eovuma. There is now a decided scantiness of trees. Many 

 of the hill-tops are covered with grass or another plant; 

 there is pleasure now in seeing them bare. Ferns, rhodo- 

 dendrons, and a foliaged tree, which looks in the distance 

 like silver-fir, are met with. 



The Mandare root is here called ISTyumbo, when cooked 

 it has a slight degree of bitterness with it which cultivation 

 may remove. Mica schist crowned some of the heights on 

 the watershed, then gneiss, and now, as we descend further, 

 we have igneous rocks of more recent eruption, porphyry 



