CHAPTER IV.
The Upper Shire--Discovery of Lake Nyassa--Distressing exploration--Return to Zambesi--Unpleasant visitors--Start for Sekeletu's Country in the interior.
Our path followed the Shire above the cataracts, which is now a broad deep river, with but little current.

It expands in one place into a lakelet, called Pamalombe, full of fine fish, and ten or twelve miles long by five or six in breadth.

Its banks are low, and a dense wall of papyrus encircles it.

On its western shore rises a range of hills running north.

On reaching the village of the chief Muana-Moesi, and about a day's march distant from Nyassa, we were told that no lake had ever been heard of there; that the River Shire stretched on as we saw it now to a distance of "two months," and then came out from between perpendicular rocks, which towered almost to the skies.