It is the knowledge that we shall be detained, some two or three months during the heavy rains that makes me cleave to it as means of support.
Advantage has been taken by the people, of spots where the Lokuzhwa goes round three parts of a circle, to erect their stockaded villages.
This is the case here, and the water, being stagnant, engenders disease.

The country abounds in a fine light blue flowering perennial pea, which the people make use of as a relish.

At present the blossoms only are collected and boiled.

On inquiring the name, _chilobe_, the men asked me if we had none in our country.

On replying in the negative, they looked with pity on us: "What a wretched, country not to have chilobe." It is on the highlands above; we never saw it elsewhere! Another species of pea _( Chilobe Weza)_, with reddish flowers, is eaten in the same way; but it has spread but little in comparison.