The fear they feel is altogether the effect of the English name, for we have done nothing to cause their alarm.
_2nd August, 1866._--There was something very cheering to me in the sight at our encampment of yellow grass and trees dotted over it, as in the Bechuana country.

The birds were singing merrily too, inspired by the cold, which was 47 deg., and by the vicinity of some population.
Gum-copal trees and bushes grow here as well as all over the country; but gum is never dug for, probably because the trees were never large enough to yield the fossil gum.

Marks of smiths are very abundant and some furnaces are still standing.

Much cultivation must formerly have been where now all is jungle.
We arrived at Mbanga, a village embowered in trees, chiefly of the euphorbia, so common in the Manganja country further south.

Kandulo, the headman, had gone to drink beer at another village, but sent orders to give a hut and to cook for us.