The Looembe main stream is 66 feet wide, 6 feet deep, with at least 200 feet of flood beyond it.

The water was knee deep on the bridge, but clear; the flooded part beyond was waist deep and the water flowing fast.
All the people are now transplanting tobacco from the spaces under the eaves of the huts into the fields.

It seems unable to bear the greater heat of summer: they plant also a kind of liranda, proper for the cold weather.

We thought that we were conferring a boon in giving peas, but we found them generally propagated all over the country already, and in the cold time too.

We went along the Diola River to an old hut and made a fire; thence across country to another river, called Loendawe, 6 feet wide, and 9 feet deep.
_10th March, 1867._--I have been ill of fever ever since we left Moamba's; every step I take jars in the chest, and I am very weak; I can scarcely keep up the march, though formerly I was always first, and had to hold in my pace not to leave the people altogether.