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of temporary buildings made by the natives, where they had lived till the water 
subsided. Their temporary inconvenience from the inundation was amply 
compensated, however, by the increased fertilization of the soil, and this year 
we saw the natives planting and harvesting at the same time, and mealies 
(maize) in every stage of growth. 
The Guija we reached is not indicated on the map. Its old name is Canicado, 
whilst Guija marked on the map is about 20 miles more upstream. It is the 
seat of an Administrator, and the chief town of the extremely large province 
of Guija, its area being larger than that of Magude, Bilene Chibuto together. 
We had to cross the river as we wanted to follow a footpath along the left bank. 
On the 4th of July we left Guija with a number of natives and two new 
scotch carts, each with four oxen, provided by the Administrator. We soon 
found that game was not at all plentiful ; in fact, we did not see any during the 
first days, except birds. Near the road, on both sides, we saw several most 
beautiful pools, full of gorgeous waterlilies in flower, and Utricularias, whilst 
delicate Limnanthemums adorned the banks. Large numbers of ibises, herons, 
divers, jacanas, gallinules, geese, and ducks were feeding there, and without 
these it would not have been possible to feed, the natives sufficiently. Some- 
times large flocks of pelicans gathered on the banks or were seen swimming 
majestically amongst the Nymphaeas, and these especially were selected for 
culinary purposes, not so much for quality as for quantity. The banks of these 
pools offered very good collecting ground for Amphibia. 
On the second day we reached Mopane forest, but every now and then 
the footpath brought us near the river where the forest is of quite another 
nature. I was astonished not to find the Afzelia quanensis (we had noticed 
some near the Manzimhlope) ; a few Kiggelias and Adansonias gave occasionally 
a change to the general aspect of the forest of fever trees, wild figs, and marulas. 
In many places there may have been in the past plantations of Ricinus communis , 
and, if so, the seeds may have spread all along the river ; the plant is, however, 
so common, that one gets the impression that its original home may be here. 
On the evening of 5th July we camped about three miles from the junction 
of the Elephants and Limpopo Rivers, near a large pool called Fukwe. Natives 
told us that hippos were abundant at the junction. We decided to try and 
shoot one the next morning as we were very short of meat. We saw several 
rather far away and only succeeded in wounding a large bull. 
The scenery here was very fine, the road climbing higher and higher to 
about 300 feet above the river, unfolding a most wonderful landscape. It 
was only here that I saw long strings of Usnea hanging from the trees, and 
noticed that the forest had some similarity to that of the Likuani forest in 
Maputaland. A few miles beyond the junction there was again a large pool, 
several miles long, called Pungwe, swarming with pelicans. Thousands of 
them must have been there ; in the distance they gave the absolute impression 
of a huge flock of sheep. 
On the evening of the 7th we reached the grounds of Papai, where game 
was said to be fairly plentiful, and where elephants might be found also. Camp 
was made here and two natives were sent out to Mananga to ascertain whether 
the reports about elephants were true. They returned two days later with 
fresh dung, and we decided to proceed about 14 miles to the north-east. In 
the meantime, I had been collecting insects and plants. Insect life was scarce 
at Papai ; a few wasps were caught and robber flies. I noticed also that one 
kind of ants was very active. Amongst them seemed to be ants of a very 
different type. When I succeeded in catching some of these, apparently larger 
individuals, they proved to be two individuals of the same kind. They moved 
so quickly that it was impossible to distinguish how they were interlaced, and 
