I had another fit of insensibility last night: the muscles of the back lose all power,[52] and there is constant singing in the ears, and inability to do the simplest sum.

Cross the Aeeze (which makes the waterfall) fifteen yards wide and knee deep.

The streams like this are almost innumerable.
Mombo's village.

It is distressingly difficult to elicit accurate information about the Lake and rivers, because the people do not think accurately.

Mombo declared that two Arabs came when we were below, and inquired for us, but he denied our presence, thinking thereby to save us trouble and harm.
The cotton cultivated is of the Pernambuco species, and the bushes are seven or eight feet high.