A granitic peak now appears about 15' off, to the W.S.W.It is called Chihoka.
_18th May, 1866._--At our crossing place metamorphic rocks of a chocolate colour stood on edge; and in the country round we have patches of dolomite, sometimes as white as marble.

The country is all dry: grass and leaves crisp and yellow.

Though so arid now, yet the great abundance of the dried stalks of a water-loving plant, a sort of herbaceous acacia, with green pea-shaped flowers, proves that at other times it is damp enough.

The marks of people's feet floundering in slush, but now baked, show that the country can be sloppy.
The headman of the village where we spent the night of 17th is a martyr to rheumatism.

He asked for medicine, and when I gave some he asked me to give it to him out of my own hand.