Our bags, rifles, and revolvers are carefully placed at our heads, and a fire made near our feet.

We have no tent nor covering of any kind except the branches of the tree under which we may happen to lie; and it is a pretty sight to look up and see every branch, leaf, and twig of the tree stand out, reflected against the clear star- spangled and moonlit sky.

The stars of the first magnitude have names which convey the same meaning over very wide tracts of country.

Here when Venus comes out in the evenings, she is called Ntanda, the eldest or first-born, and Manjika, the first-born of morning, at other times: she has so much radiance when shining alone, that she casts a shadow.

Sirius is named Kuewa usiko, "drawer of night," because supposed to draw the whole night after it.