The narrow opening prevents it from moving off in a landslip, but an oozing spring rises at that spot.

All the pools in the lower portion of this spring-course are filled by the first rains, which happen south of the equator when the sun goes vertically over any spot.

The second, or greater rains, happen in his course north again, when all the bogs and river-courses being wet, the supply runs off, and forms the inundation: this was certainly the case as observed on the Zambesi and Shire, and, taking the different times for the sun's passage north of the equator, it explains the inundation of the Nile.
_25th September, 1866._--Marenga's town on the west shore of Lake Nyassa is very large, and his people collected in great numbers to gaze at the stranger.

The chief's brother asked a few questions, and I took the occasion to be a good one for telling him something about the Bible and the future state.

The men said that their fathers had never told them aught about the soul, but they thought that the whole man rotted and came to nothing.