yards broad and thigh deep, came down alongside our precipitous
path, and formed cascades by leaping 300 feet at a time. These,
with the bright red of the clay schists among the
greenwood-trees, made the dullest of my attendants pause and
remark with wonder. Antelopes, buffaloes, and elephants abound
on the steep slopes; and hippopotami, crocodiles, and fish
swarm in the water. Gnus are here unknown, and these animals may
live to old age if not beguiled into pitfalls. The elephants
sometimes eat the crops of the natives, and flap their big ears
just outside the village stockades. One got out of our way on to
a comparatively level spot, and then stood and roared at us.
Elsewhere they make clear off at sight of man.

The first village we came to on the banks of the Lake had a
grove of palm-oil and other trees around it. This palm tree was
not the dwarf species seen on Lake Nyassa. A cluster of the
fruit passed the door of my hut which required two men to carry
it. The fruit seemed quite as large as those on the West Coast.
Most of the natives live on two islands, where they cultivate
the soil, rear goats, and catch fish. The Lake is not large,
from 15 to 20 miles broad, and from 30 to 40 long. It is the
receptacle of four considerable streams, and sends out an arm
two miles broad to the N.N.W., it is said to Tanganyika, and it
may be a branch of that Lake. One of the streams, the Lonzua,
drives a smooth body of water into the Lake fifty yards broad
and ten fathoms deep, bearing on its surface duckweed and grassy
islands. I could see the mouths of other streams, but got near
enough to measure the Lofu only; and at a ford fifty miles from
the confluence it was 100 yards wide and waist deep in the dry
season.