If game was to be had, I should have hunted; but the hopo way of hunting prevails, and we pass miles of hedges by which many animals must have perished.

In passing-through the forests it is surprising to see none but old footsteps of the game; but the hopo destruction accounts for its absence.

When the hedges are burned, then the manured space is planted with pumpkins and calabashes.
I observed at Chibanda's a few green mushrooms, which, on being peeled, showed a pink, fleshy inside; they are called "chisimba;" and only one or two are put into the mortar, in which the women pound the other kinds, to give relish, it was said, to the mass: I could not ascertain what properties chisimba had when taken alone; but mushroom diet, in our experience, is good only for producing dreams of the roast beef of bygone days.

The saliva runs from the mouth in these dreams, and the pillow is wet with it in the mornings.
These Babisa are full of suspicion; everything has to be paid for accordingly in advance, and we found that giving a present to a chief is only putting it in his power to cheat us out of a supper.

They give nothing to each other for nothing, and if this is enlargement of mind produced by commerce, commend me to the untrading African! Fish now appear in the rivulets.