The Bakwain hills are an exception to the usual flat surface, for they are covered with green trees to their tops, and the valleys are often of the most lovely green.
The trees are larger too, and even the plains of the Bakwain country contain trees instead of bushes.

If you look north from the hills we are now leaving, the country partakes of this latter character.

It appears as if it were a flat covered with a forest of ordinary-sized trees from 20 to 30 feet high, but when you travel over it they are not so closely planted but that a wagon with care may be guided among them.

The grass grows in tufts of the size of one's hat, with bare soft sand between.
Nowhere here have we an approach to English lawns, or the pleasing appearance of English greensward.
In no part of this country could European grain be cultivated without irrigation.

The natives all cultivate the dourrha or holcus sorghum, maize, pumpkins, melons, cucumbers, and different kinds of beans; and they are entirely dependent for the growth of these on rains.