Some black men, who accompanied us as volunteer workmen from Shupanga, called out one evening that a lion stood on the bank.

It was very dark, and we could only see two sparkling lights, said to be the lion's eyes looking at us; for here, as elsewhere, they have a theory that the lion's eyes always flash fire at night.

Not being fireflies--as they did not move when a shot was fired in their direction--they were probably glowworms.
Beyond Morambala the Shire comes winding through an extensive marsh.

For many miles to the north a broad sea of fresh green grass extends, and is so level, that it might be used for taking the meridian altitude of the sun.

Ten or fifteen miles north of Morambala, stands the dome-shaped mountain Makanga, or Chi-kanda; several others with granitic-looking peaks stretch away to the north, and form the eastern boundary of the valley; another range, but of metamorphic rocks, commencing opposite Senna, bounds the valley on the west.