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Report of a Journey taken along the Frontier of the Britis 
PROTECTORATE of NYASSALAND 
villages were being ‘constructed by natives who had crossed from the 
other side. 
A mile inland from the Shiré there commences an exteusive belt of 
Borassus palm, which, varying in breadth from one to nine miles, 
extends from the Ruo to near Nkati, a distance, т a few broken 
tracts, of between 35 анч 40 miles. Nowhere is the result of the 
Portuguese “invasion more apparent than in the number of those 
graceful productions of the vegetable kingdom that now nudely ees 
as if protesting against the barbarous treatment they received at the 
hands of those ruthless intruders, who beheaded them for their life's 
bl Giant Baobabs and tall “ Njale" trees stud the plain, and the 
umbrageous Kigelia is ever present. As one journeys on he comes 
suddenly upon patches of lawn closely shaven by the incisors of the wary 
antelope, defined it may be by a finde of dwarf palm supported by a 
combination of other trees and sh rubs, and the ubiquitous mimosa, 
which, though unmerciful to tio fect of ‘the unshod ныл not only 
en in flower entrances the vision by presenting a solid semi-globe of 
golden blossom, but diffuses RM a fragrance such as only prodigally 
beneficent natüre may indulge 
Several miles of the plain are kipa wooded with the more common 
types of African а эр Acacia, Bauhinia, Terminalia, Pterocarpus, 
Tamarindus, &c. ; and at the foot of the hills, the forest, if not primeval 
is certainly virgin. "There is aa} to be ^ an abundant supply of 
firewood for river work, but s improvident are the natives, and so 
oriri their methods of ныл. їп defo oresting a district, that 
ill have to be exercised in order to maintain a supply of this 
ed. 
The river abounds in fish, and it is no exaggeration to say, that in 
some places the water is literally black with shoals of yambo, golokolo, 
machenga, micheni, msuluwa, mambuli, makambali, and others, all 
more or less eaten by the natives, and some of which are welcome 
adjunets to the white man's o. isine. Men and boys sit for hours 
atatime in some secluded s n the river's bank, patiently plying 
the * gentle art," while others den “mindfal of sport resort to traps an 
weirs 
At “Mtengera the first of the rocks. known as Chichiri are visible. 
s, а 
as Chipolopolo's, aboat eight miles, while ts 
Mtengera nine to A" during the whole 12 months : but de the 
rocks no craft can be of use. 
At =r poiut the hills commence, and the path still gee the 
course of th er crosses many undulations before reac ing the spot 
where Mlolo from the left bank has chosen to establish himself. The 
