Higher altitudes have only small things, not worth catching.
An owl makes the woods resound by night and early morning with his cries, which consist of a loud, double-initial note, and then a succession of lower descending notes.

Another new bird, or at least new to me, makes the forests ring.
When the vultures see us making our sheds, they conclude that we have killed some animal; but after watching awhile, and seeing no meat, they depart.

This is suggestive of what other things prove, that it is only by sight they are guided.[47] With respect to the native head-dresses the colouring-matter, "nkola," which seems to be camwood, is placed as an ornament on the head, and some is put on the bark-cloth to give it a pleasant appearance.

The tree, when cut, is burned to bring out the strong colour, and then, when it is developed, the wood is powdered.
The gum-copal trees now pour out gum where wounded, and I have seen masses of it fallen on the ground.
_26th January, 1867._--Went northwards along the Movushi, near to its confluence with Chambeze, and then took lodging in a deserted temporary village.

In the evening I shot a poku, or tsebula, full-grown male.