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greatly inferior to the Manganja on the Lake in pottery, for 

 the fragments, as well as modern whole vessels, are very 

 coarse ; the ornamentation is omitted or merely dots. They 

 never heard of aerolites, but know hail. 



I notice here that the tree Mfu, or Mo, having sweet- 

 scented leaves, yields an edible plum in clusters. Bua-bwa 

 is another edible fruit-tree with palmated leaves. 



Mbeu is a climbing, arboraceous plant, and yields a very 

 pleasant fruit, which tastes like gooseberries : its seeds are 

 very minute. 



18th and 19th November. — Eain fell heavily yesterday 

 afternoon, and was very threatening to-day ; we remain to 

 sew a calico tent. 



20th November. — Kanyindula came with three carriers 

 this morning instead of five, and joined them in demand- 

 ing prepayment : it was natural for him to side with them, 

 as they have more power than he has, in fact, the chiefs 

 in these parts all court their people, and he could feel 

 more interest in them than in an entire stranger whom he 

 might never see again : however, we came on without his 

 people, leaving two to guard the loads. 



About four miles up the valley we came to a village 

 named Kanyenjere Mponda, at the fountain-eye of the 

 Bua, and thence sent men back for the loads, while we 

 had the shelter of good huts during a heavy thunder- 

 shower, and made us willing to remain all night. The 

 valley is lovely in the extreme. The mountains on each 

 side are gently rounded, and, as usual, covered over with 

 tree foliage, except where the red soil is exposed by recent 

 grass-burnings. Quartz rocks jut out, and much drift of 

 that material has been carried down by the gullies into the 

 bottom. These gullies being in compact clay, the water 

 has but little power of erosion, so they are worn deep but 

 narrow. Some fragments of titaniferous iron ore, with 

 haematite changed by heat, and magnetic, lay in the gully, 



