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bulbs and plants, were identical with these in Pungo 

 Andongo. A flower, as white as the snowdrop, now begins 

 to appear, and farther on, it spots the whole sward with 

 its beautiful pure white. A fresh crop appears every 

 morning, and if the day is cloudy they do not expand till 

 the afternoon. In an hour or so they droop and die. 

 They are named by the natives, from their shape, " Tlaku 

 ea pitse," hoof of zebra. I carried several of the some- 

 what bulbous roots of this pretty flower till I reached the 

 Mauritius. 



On the 30th we crossed the river Kalomo, which is 

 about 50 yards broad, and is the only stream that never 

 dries up on this ridge. The current is rapid, and its 

 course is towards the south, as it joins the Zambesi at 

 some distance below the falls. The Unguesi and Lekone, 

 with their feeders, flow westward, this river to the south, 

 and all those to which we are about to come, take an 

 easterly direction. We were thus at the apex of the 

 ridge, and found that, as water boiled at 202 , our altitude 

 above the level of the sea was over 5000 feet. Here the 

 granite crops out again in great rounded masses which 

 change the dip of the gneiss and mica schist rocks from the 

 westward to the eastward. In crossing the western ridge, 

 I mentioned the clay-shale or keele formation, a section of 

 which we have in the valley of the Quango : the strata 

 there lie nearly horizontal, but on this ridge the granite 

 seems to have been the active agent of elevation, for the 

 rocks, both on its east and west, abut against it. Both 

 eastern and western ridges are known to be comparatively 

 salubrious, and in this respect, as well as in the general 

 aspect of the country, they resemble that most healthy of 

 all healthy climates, the interior of South Africa, near 

 and adjacent to the Desert. This ridge has neither foun- 

 tain nor marsh upon it, and east of the Kalomo we look 

 upon treeless undulating plains covered with short grass. 

 From a point somewhat near to the great falls, this ridge 

 or oblong mound trends away to the N.K., and there 

 treeless elevated plains again appear. Then again the 

 ridge is said to bend away from the falls to the S.E., the 

 Mashona country, or rather their mountains, appearing, 

 according to Mr. Moffat, about four days east of Ma- 

 tlokotloko, the present residence of Mosilikatse. In refer- 

 ence to this ridge he makes the interesting remark, " I 

 observed a number of the Angora goat, most of them 



