Some, however, are as dark as the Bashubia and Barotse of the great valley to their west, in which stands Sesheke, formerly the capital of the Balui, or Bashubia.
The assertion may seem strange, yet it is none the less true, that in all the tribes we have visited we never saw a really black person.

Different shades of brown prevail, and often with a bright bronze tint, which no painter, except Mr.Angus, seems able to catch.

Those who inhabit elevated, dry situations, and who are not obliged to work much in the sun, are frequently of a light warm brown, "dark but comely." Darkness of colour is probably partly caused by the sun, and partly by something in the climate or soil which we do not yet know.

We see something of the same sort in trout and other fish which take their colour from the ponds or streams in which they live.

The members of our party were much less embrowned by free exposure to the sun for years than Dr.Livingstone and his family were by passing once from Kuruman to Cape Town, a journey which occupied only a couple of months.
We encamped on the Kalomo, on the 1st of October, and found the weather very much warmer than when we crossed this stream in August.