Here hippopotami are known to exist only by their footprints on the banks.
Not one is ever seen to blow or put his head up at all; they have learned to breathe in silence and keep out of sight.

We never heard one uttering the snorting sound so common on the Zambesi.
We crossed two small streams, the Kanesi and Fombeji, before reaching Cabango, a village situated on the banks of the Chihombo.

The country was becoming more densely peopled as we proceeded, but it bears no population compared to what it might easily sustain.

Provisions were to be had in great abundance; a fowl and basket of meal weighing 20 lbs.
were sold for a yard and a half of very inferior cotton cloth, worth not more than threepence.

An idea of the cheapness of food may be formed from the fact that Captain Neves purchased 380 lbs.