On the southern side we see the hill Bungwe, and the long, level, wooded ridge Nyangombe, the first of a series bending from the S.E.to the N.W.

past the Zambesi.

We shot an old pallah on the 16th, and found that the poor animal had been visited with more than the usual share of animal afflictions.

He was stone-blind in both eyes, had several tumours, and a broken leg, which showed no symptoms of ever having begun to heal.

Wild animals sometimes suffer a great deal from disease, and wearily drag on a miserable existence before relieved of it by some ravenous beast.