They are very common in all this Southern Africa in the passes of the mountains, and are meant to mark divisions of countries, perhaps burial-places, but the Waiyau who accompanied us thought that they were merely heaps of stone collected by some one making a garden.

The cairns were placed just about the spot where the blue waters of Nyassa first came fairly into view.
We now came upon a stream, the Misinje, flowing into the Lake, and we crossed it five times; it was about twenty yards wide, and thigh deep.
We made but short stages when we got on the lower plateau, for the people had great abundance of food, and gave large presents of it if we rested.

One man gave four fowls, three large baskets of maize, pumpkins, eland's fat--a fine male, as seen by his horns,--and pressed us to stay, that he might see our curiosities as well as others.

He said that at one day's distance south of him all sorts of animals, as buffaloes, elands, elephants, hippopotami, and antelopes, could be shot.
_8th August, 1866._--We came to the Lake at the confluence of the Misinje, and felt grateful to That Hand which had protected us thus far on our journey.

It was as if I had come back to an old home I never expected again to see; and pleasant to bathe in the delicious waters again, hear the roar of the sea, and dash in the rollers.