By day they engage in pairing and coaxing each other.

They come to the same twig every night.
Like children they try and lift heavy weights of feathers above their strength.
[How fully he hoped to reach the hill from which he supposed the Nile to flow is shown in the following words written at this time:--] I trust in Providence still to help me.

I know the four rivers Zambesi, Kafue, Luapula, and Lomame, their fountains must exist in one region.
An influential Muganda is dead of dysentery: no medicine had any effect in stopping the progress of the disease.

This is much colder than his country.

Another is blind from ophthalmia.
Great hopes are held that the war which has lasted a full year will now be brought to a close, and Mirambo either be killed or flee.