There are two kinds of cotton in the country, and the Mashona, who convert it into cloth, dye it blue with this plant.
We found the elephants in prodigious numbers on the southern bank.

They come to drink by night, and after having slaked their thirst--in doing which they throw large quantities of water over themselves, and are heard, while enjoying the refreshment, screaming with delight--they evince their horror of pitfalls by setting off in a straight line to the desert, and never diverge till they are eight or ten miles off.

They are smaller here than in the countries farther south.

At the Limpopo, for instance, they are upward of twelve feet high; here, only eleven: farther north we shall find them nine feet only.

The koodoo, or tolo, seemed smaller, too, than those we had been accustomed to see.