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or fat stirred up with it. It is something like stiff 

 rice-pudding." 



Advancing together the following morning, the 

 three stopped for a day or two's hunting a few 

 miles farther on, beyond the river. Here buffalo 

 and blue wildebeest were met with, and the 

 spoor of ostriches was seen. From a fine rocky 

 plateau in the neighbourhood a good survey of the 

 surrounding district was obtained. " Looking to 

 the south-west," writes the traveller, "we saw the 

 distant conical range of the Tati hills, between 

 which and ourselves lay a fine green bush -covered 

 plain, through which flow the Impakwe and Rama- 

 kwebani Rivers. This plain extends far to the west 

 and north, but to the north-east is again broken by 

 kopjes in the direction of the Mangwe, whilst the 

 fine craggy hills of the Inkwisi rise nearer in the 

 same direction." Some delicious fruits, not unlike 

 greengages, known by the natives as "morula," 

 were picked up about here on the march. Between 

 the skin and the large stone in the centre of each 

 was a sweet liquid with scarcely any pulp. "We 

 also found," adds the writer, "a number of berries, 

 of which we ate a good lot. These grow on low 

 bushes, which have a sweet-scented yellow flower, 

 with a smell like that of sallow bloom. The fruit is 

 reddish -brown, about the size of a haw; dry, sweet, 

 and containing a stone. It is called ' Kaffir plum.' ,n 



1 The former of these fruits (apparently identical with one found 

 by Sir John Kirk in the Zambesi region, and named Parinmiiim 

 mobola), acts as an intoxicant when eaten in sufficient numbers. It is 



