ent. The fish must be very abundant to be scooped out of the
water in such quantities as we saw, and by so many canoes. There is
quite a trade here in dried fish.

The country around is elevated, undulating, and very extensively planted
with cassava. The hoe in use has a handle of four feet in length, and
the iron part is exactly of the same form as that in the country of the
Bechuanas. The baskets here, which are so closely woven together as to
hold beer, are the same with those employed to hold milk in Kaffirland--a
thousand miles distant.

Marching on foot is peculiarly conducive to meditation--one is glad of
any subject to occupy the mind, and relieve the monotony of the weary
treadmill-like trudge-trudging. This Chia net brought to our mind that
the smith's bellows made here of a goatskin bag, with sticks along the
open ends, are the same as those in use in the Bechuana country far to
the south-west. These, with the long-handled hoe, may only show that
each successive horde from north to south took inventions with it from
the same original source. Where that source may have been is probably
indicated by another pair of bellows, which we observed below the
Victoria Falls, being found in Central India and among the Gipsies of
Europe.

Men in remote times may have had more highly-developed instincts, which
enabled them to avoid or use poisons; but the late Archbishop Whately has
proved, that wholly untaught savages never could invent anything, or even
subsist at all. Abundant corroboration of his arguments is met with in
this country, where the natives require but little in the way of
clothing, and have remarkably hardy stomachs. Although possessing a
knowledge of all the edible roots and fruits in the country, having hoes
to dig with, and spears, bows, and arrows to kill the game,--we have seen
that, notwithstanding all these appliances and means to boot, they have
perished of absolute starvation.

The art of making fire is the same in India as in Africa. The smelting
furnaces, for reducing iron and copper from the ores, are also similar.
Yellow haematite, which bears not the smallest resemblance either in
colour or weight to the metal, is employed near Kolobeng for the
production of iron. Malachite, the precious green stone used in
civilized life for vases, would never be suspected by the uninstructed to
be a rich ore of copper, and yet it is extensively smelted for rings and
other ornaments in the he