abounds. When we meet with it on a spot on which no rain
has yet fallen, we see that the young ones twist their leaves round
during the heat of the day, so that the edge only is exposed to the rays
of the sun; they have then a half twist on the petiole. The acacias in
the same circumstances, and also the mopane ('Bauhania'), fold their
leaves together, and, by presenting the smallest possible surface to the
sun, simulate the eucalypti of Australia.

Chapter 27.

Low Hills--Black Soldier-Ants; their Cannibalism--The Plasterer and
its Chloroform--White Ants; their Usefulness--Mutokwane-smoking;
its Effects--Border Territory--Healthy Table-lands--Geological
Formation--Cicadae--Trees--Flowers--River Kalomo--Physical
Conformation of Country--Ridges, sanatoria--A wounded Buffalo
assisted--Buffalo-bird--Rhinoceros-bird--Leaders of Herds--The
Honey-guide--The White Mountain--Mozuma River--Sebituane's old
Home--Hostile Village--Prophetic Phrensy--Food of the Elephant--
Ant-hills--Friendly Batoka--Clothing despised--Method of Salutation--
Wild Fruits--The Captive released--Longings for Peace--Pingola's
Conquests--The Village of Monze--Aspect of the Country--Visit from the
Chief Monze and his Wife--Central healthy Locations--Friendly Feelings
of the People in reference to a white Resident--Fertility of the
Soil--Bashukulompo Mode of dressing their Hair--Gratitude of the
Prisoner we released--Kindness and Remarks of Monze's Sister--Dip of
the Rocks--Vegetation--Generosity of the Inhabitants--Their Anxiety for
Medicine--Hooping-cough--Birds and Rain.

NOVEMBER 27TH. Still at Marimba's. In the adjacent country palms abound,
but none of that species which yields the oil; indeed, that is met
with only near the coast. There are numbers of flowers and bulbs
just shooting up from the soil. The surface is rough, and broken into
gullies; and, though the country is parched, it has not that appearance,
so many trees having put forth their fresh green leaves at the time the
rains ought to have come. Among the rest stands the mola, with its dark
brownish-green color and spreading oak-like form. In the distance there
are ranges of low hills. On the north we have one called Kanjele, and to
the east that of Kaonka, to which we proceed to-morrow. We have made a
considerable detour to the north, both on account of our wish to avoid
the tsetse and to visit the people. Those of Kaonka are the last Batoka
we shall meet, in friendship with