Our ridge looked like a glacier, and it wound from side to side, and took us to the edge of deep precipices, first on the right, then on the left, till down below we came to the villages of Chief Monandenda.

The houses here are all well filled with firewood on shelves, and each has a bed on a raised platform in an inner room.
The paths are very skilfully placed on the tops of the ridges of hills, and all gullies are avoided.

If the highest level were not in general made the ground for passing through the country the distances would at least be doubled, and the fatigue greatly increased.

The paths seem to have been used for ages: they are worn deep on the heights; and in hollows a little mound rises on each side, formed by the feet tossing a little soil on one side.
_21st September, 1869._--Cross five or six rivulets, and as many villages, some burned and deserted, or inhabited.

Very many people come running to see the strangers.