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THE NEW AFRICA 
posed of leafy trees standing several yards apart from each 
other, clad to the ground with bright green foliage. There was 
no grass growing on the clayey soil between these trees, which 
gave the neighbourhood an appearance of a tree-grown beach. 
The scenery of the Klamachanyaana is very picturesque. Tall 
foliage trees fringe the small lakes and cast cool shadows on the 
luxuriant short grass underneath, on which our cattle grazed, 
while bright blue and white lilies, supported by their broad, 
round leaves, formed a suitable edging to the water, in whose 
limpid brown depths multitudes of fish sported, always in 
danger from the attacks of the numerous wild-fowl flocking on 
the surface. Seldom have I seen so inviting a spot to rest in; 
and we took advantage of it to the full, bathing, sleeping, and 
feeding in succession—amusements we should have been only 
too glad to prolong had the circumstances allowed us such 
indulgence. 
These pools must be supported by some underground current 
of water; for we learned that they are always full, and to be 
depended upon for water when the rest of the desert is com¬ 
pletely dried up during the successive droughts common in 
this country. 
We made a desperately long, thirsty trek from the Klama¬ 
chanyaana to the Jurua pan, which we found to our dismay had 
been emptied out by a droughty, wandering troop of elephants 
the previous evening. Thirsty as we were, there was no help for 
it but to make a forced trek on to the next water, while our 
poor cattle suffered severely from thirst. Without other event 
we reached Panda Matenga on the 20th of May, having taken 
two months and twenty days to complete the journey from 
Natal, a rate of travel exciting astonishment amongst the people 
we met at Panda Matenga, for the trip usually takes at least 
four months with ordinary wagons. 
