The sound, so un-African, of gushing water dashing over rocks was quite familiar to our ears.
This district, which rises up west of Mataka's to 3400 feet above the sea, catches a great deal of the moisture brought up by the easterly winds.

Many of the trees are covered with lichens.

While here we had cold southerly breezes, and a sky so overcast every day after 10 A.M., that we could take no astronomical observations: even the latitude was too poor to be much depended on.

12 deg.

53' S.may have been a few miles from this.
The cattle, rather a small breed, black and white in patches, and brown, with humps, give milk which is duly prized by these Waiyau.