The hills are granite now, and a range on our left, from 700 to 1500 feet high, goes on all the way to Moero.
These valleys along which we travel are beautiful.

Green is the prevailing colour; but the clumps of trees assume a great variety of forms, and often remind one of English park scenery.

The long line of slaves and carriers, brought up by their Arab employers, adds life to the scene, they are in three bodies, and number 450 in all.

Each party has a guide with a flag, and when that is planted all that company stops till it is lifted, and a drum is beaten, and a kudu's horn sounded.

One party is headed by about a dozen leaders, dressed with fantastic head-gear of feathers and beads, red cloth on the bodies, and skins cut into strips and twisted: they take their places in line, the drum beats, the horn sounds harshly, and all fall in.