The soil is very rich, and yields abundantly wherever cultivated.
This is the watershed between the Loangwa, a tributary of the
Zambesi, and several rivers which flow towards the north. Of the
latter, the most remarkable is the Chambeze, for it assists in
the formation of three lakes, and changes its name three times
in the five or six hundred miles of its course.

On leaving Lobemba we entered Ulungu, and, as we proceeded
northwards, perceived by the barometers and the courses of
numerous rivulets, that a decided slope lay in that direction. A
friendly old Ulungu chief, named Kasonso, on hearing that I
wished to visit Lake Liemba, which lies in his country, gave his
son with a large escort to guide me thither; and on the 2nd
April last we reached the brim of the deep cup-like cavity in
which the Lake reposes. The descent is 2000 feet, and still the
surface of the water is upwards of 2500 feet above the level of
the sea. The sides of the hollow are very steep, and sometimes
the rocks run the whole 2000 feet sheer down to the water.
Nowhere is there three miles of level land from the foot of the
cliffs to the shore, but top, sides, and bottom are covered with
well-grown wood and grass, except where the bare rocks protrude.
The scenery is extremely beautiful. The "Aeasy," a stream of 15
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 la