It is met with on the uplands alone, and seems incapable of bearing much heat, though I kept some of the roots without earth in a box, which was carried in the sun almost daily for six months, without destroying their vegetative power.
It is remarkable that in all the central regions of Africa visited, the cotton is that known as the Pernambuco variety.

It has a long strong staple, seeds clustered together, and adherent to each other.

The bushes eight or ten feet high have woody stems, and the people make strong striped black and white shawls of the cotton.
It was pleasant to meet the palm-oil palm (_Elais Guineaensis_) at Casembe's, which is over 3000 feet above the level of the sea.

The oil is sold cheap, but no tradition exists of its introduction into the country.
I send no sketch of the country, because I have not yet passed over a sufficient surface to give a connected view of the whole watershed of this region, and I regret that I cannot recommend any of the published maps I have seen as giving even a tolerable idea of the country.

One bold constructor of maps has tacked on 200 miles to the north-west end of Lake Nyassa, a feat which no traveller has ever ventured to imitate.