I sent the sepoys some cloth, and on the 8th proposed to start, but every particle of food had been devoured the night before, so we despatched two parties to scour the country round, and give any price rather than want.
I could not prevail on Makochera to give me a specimen of poetry; he was afraid, neither he nor his forefathers had ever seen an Englishman.

He thought that God was not good because He killed so many people.

Dr.Roscher must have travelled as an Arab if he came this way, for he was not known.[10] _9th June, 1866._--We now left and marched through the same sort of forest, gradually ascending in altitude as we went west, then we came to huge masses of granite, or syenite, with flakes peeling off.

They are covered with a plant with grassy-looking leaves and rough stalk which strips into portions similar to what are put round candles as ornaments.

It makes these hills look light grey, with patches of black rock at the more perpendicular parts; the same at about ten miles off look dark blue.