The higher parts of its bed even are much broader and more capacious than the lower toward Kumadau.

The water is not absorbed so much as lost in filling up an empty channel, from which it is to be removed by the air and sun.

There is, I am convinced, no such thing in the country as a river running into sand and becoming lost.

The phenomenon, so convenient for geographers, haunted my fancy for years; but I have failed in discovering any thing except a most insignificant approach to it.
My chief object in coming to the lake was to visit Sebituane, the great chief of the Makololo, who was reported to live some two hundred miles beyond.

We had now come to a half-tribe of the Bamangwato, called Batauana.