It had killed a man and they killed it.

They had its mouth carefully strapped, and the paws tied across its chest, and were taking it to Casembe.

_Nyassi_ means long grass, such as towers overhead, and is as thick in the stalk as a goose-quill; and is erroneously applied to Nyassa.

Other lions--Thambwe, Karamo, Simba, are said to stand 5 feet high, and some higher: this seemed about 3 feet high, but it was too dark to measure it.
_13th June, 1868._--The Arabs distinguish the Suaheli, or Arabs of mixed African blood, by the absence of beard and whiskers: these are usually small and stunted in the Suaheli.
Birds, as the Drongo shrike, and a bird very like the grey linnet, with a thick reddish bill, assemble in very large flocks now that it is winter, and continue thus till November, or period of the rains.
A very minute bee goes into the common small holes in wormeaten wood to make a comb and lay its eggs, with a supply of honey.

There are seven or eight honey-bees of small size in this country.
A sphex may be seen to make holes in the ground, placing stupified insects in them with her eggs; another species watches when she goes off to get more insects, and every now and then goes in too to lay her eggs, I suppose without any labour: there does not appear to be any enmity between them.