This is not a district of running rills: we crossed three sluggish streamlets knee deep.

Buffaloes are very numerous.
The Ratel covers the buffalo droppings with earth in order to secure the scavenger beetles which bury themselves therein, thus he prevents them from rolling a portion away as usual.
We built our sheds on a hillside.

Our course was west and 6-1/4 hours.
_2nd November, 1867._--Still in the same direction, and in an open valley remarkable for the numbers of a small euphorbia, which we smashed at every step.

Crossed a small but strong rivulet, the Lipande, going south-west to Moero, then, an hour afterwards, crossed it again, now twenty yards wide and knee deep.

After descending from the tree-covered hill which divides Lipande from Luao, we crossed the latter to sleep on its western bank.