The paths here were very narrow and very much encumbered with gigantic creepers, often as thick as a man's leg.

There must be some reason why they prefer, in some districts, to go up trees in the common form of the thread of a screw rather than in any other.

On the one bank of the Chihune they appeared to a person standing opposite them to wind up from left to right, on the other bank from right to left.

I imagined this was owing to the sun being at one season of the year on their north and at another on their south.

But on the Leeambye I observed creepers winding up on opposite sides of the same reed, and making a figure like the lacings of a sandal.
In passing through these narrow paths I had an opportunity of observing the peculiarities of my ox "Sinbad".