Their suspicions were so thoroughly aroused that they would do nothing.

The headman (Pima) was said to be absent; they could not lend us a hut, but desired us to go on to Mponda's.

We put up a shed for ourselves, and next morning, though we pressed them for a guide, no one would come.
From Pima's village we had a fine view of Pamalombe and the range of hills on its western edge, the range which flanks the lower part of Nyassa,--on part of which Mukate lives,--the gap of low land south of it behind which Shirwa Lake lies, and Chikala and Zomba nearly due south from us.

People say hippopotami come from Lake Shirwa into Lake Nyassa.

There is a great deal of vegetation in Pamalombe, gigantic rushes, duckweed, and great quantities of aquatic plants on the bottom; one slimy translucent plant is washed ashore in abundance.
Fish become very fat on these plants; one called "kadiakola" I eat much of; it has a good mass of flesh on it.
It is probable that the people of Lake Tanganyika and Nyassa, and those on the Rivers Shire and Zambesi, are all of one stock, for the dialects vary very little.[21] I took observations on this point.