The common native pumpkin forms a bastard sort in the same way, but that is considered very inferior.
_6th June, 1866._--Great hills of granite are occasionally in sight towards the north, but the trees, though scraggy, close in the view.
We left a village, called Mekosi, and goon came to a slaving party by a sand stream.

They said that they had bought two slaves, but they had run away from them, and asked us to remain with them; more civil than inviting.

We came on to Makochera, the principal headman in this quarter, and found him a merry laughing mortal, without any good looks to recommend his genial smile,--low forehead, covered with deep wrinkles; flat nose, somewhat of the Assyrian shape; a big mouth and lean body.

He complained of the Machinga (a Waiyau tribe north of him and the Rovuma) stealing his people.Lat.of village, 11 deg.

22' 49" S.
The river being about 2' north, still shows that it makes a trend to the north after we pass Ngomano.