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frontier, voted libations out of place at such a trying time. The priest 
having notified that they had done their duty to their ancestral spirits 
reserved a toothful of the beer, which led to a rather unseemly alterca- 
tion between the assistants, n otably,—he whose гае it was to call 
“ wopa," and whose thr lecidedl y needed moisteni The ceremony 
being over, a — clapping of hands followed, as a "iod amen to the 
whole proc ; the grass roof was placed over the altar; the cala- 
bash seid in улен the beer was hung on a branch h of the tree 
overhead and the company retired. офи and field operations were 
soon undertaken in right earnest, and on my revisiting Mlolo’s 10 weeks 
later, many acres of forest had been ато and planted. 
Mlolo’s villages extend for several miles below and above that in 
which he resides, which is situated partly on a promontory jutting into 
the Ruo, and partly on a knoll lying in the bosom of a crescent-shaped 
ridge. One tall vede. i Borassus palm stands asa landmark of former 
inhabitants long since 
assing beyond Molo" в the path follows closely the course of the 
iver. Here and there it crosses belts of meadow, now under an umbra- 
geous tree whose grateful shade invites the ть to rest, then emerges 
to the waters’ edge, and so on for several miles till it enters upon very 
_ At this part of the river its bed is one mass of rocks and boulders, the 
— formation of which is beautifully evident. For several hundred 
yards the appearance of these rocks is as if a shower of snow had fallen on 
pattern, this appearance being due to the various strata having a sinuous 
=) form, and the rocks oido polished by the wear and tear of 
ps Nakale, nine miles above Mlolo's, there is a small village of that 
_ ehief's people eking out a precarious subsistence. Our frien nds on the 
other bank made strenuous efforts to persuade the Nakale people that 
they had egregiously blundered in leaving Portuguese for British 
territory, only they would not see it. We : und here an intact 
ver. 
miles further on you get the first atem of the Zoa Falls, 
another half hour, during which you ascend several hundred feet, and 
you stand on a level w ith them, and already begin to feel and to breathe 
the bracing рее бед of - mountains. Fifteen minutes more takes 
you to the village of Nhataombere, which is odiei over by a swarthy 
dame, who placed her best fidence at the disposal of the stranger. 
For years past I had knownthat the Ruo abounded in miniature falls 
and cataracts, but until I passed it was not known to Europeans that 
this charming river, among the sombre recesses of r hills, took a giant 
leap of 200 feet into a foaming abyss whose dept had no means of 
estimating, and which the river itself had fried er bygone ages. 
1 estimate the breadth of the river bed at this point at about 200 yards, 
"e from bank to bank across the face of the fall, the breadth is much 
The falls of Zoa are about 25 miles inland from the mouth of the Ruo, 
and at an elevation of between 1,400 and 1,600 feet. The general 
outline of = fall is that of a horse shoe. Near to the left bank is a 
chasm some 60 yards long by 30 yards broad and 200 feet in depth to 
the water ты, From this chasm to the right bank the wall is less or 
_ more terraced. Above the chasm on the left bank there stands a huge 
mass of rock, from behind which and down whose face during the wet 
season pours a gigantic cataract. At the time of my first visit the water 
from various channels collected into one main stream which thundered 
