Crossed two sponges with rivulets in their centre.
Much cultivation in the forest.

In the second year the mileza and maize are sickly and yellow white; in the first year, with fresh wood ashes, they are dark green and strong.

Very much of the forest falls for manure.

The people seem very eager cultivators.

Possibly mounds have the potash brought up in forming.
_18th January, 1873._--We lost a week by going to Chungu (a worthless terrified headman), and came back to the ford of Lopopussi, which we crossed, only from believing him to be an influential man who would explain the country to us.