Their furnaces are rather bottle shaped, and about seven feet high by three broad.

One toothless patriarch had heard of books and umbrellas, but had never seen either.

The oldest inhabitant had never travelled far from the spot in which he was born, yet he has a good knowledge of soils and agriculture, hut-building, basket-making, pottery, and the manufacture of bark-cloth and skins for clothing, as also making of nets, traps, and cordage.
Chimuna had a most ungainly countenance, yet did well enough: he was very thankful for a blister on his loins to ease rheumatic pains, and presented a huge basket of porridge before starting, with a fowl, and asked me to fire a gun that the Mazitu might hear and know that armed men were here.

They all say that these marauders flee from fire-arms, so I think that they are not Zulus at all, though adopting some of their ways.
In going on to Mapuio's we passed several large villages, each surrounded by the usual euphorbia hedge, and having large trees for shade.

We are on & level, or rather gently amdulating country, rather bare of trees.