The mirage lifted them at times halfway to the clouds, and twisted them and the clumps of palms into strange unearthly forms.

The extensive and rich level plains by the banks, along the sides of which we paddled, would support a vast population, and might be easily irrigated from the Zambesi.

If watered, they would yield crops all the year round, and never suffer loss by drought.

The hippopotamus is killed here with long lance-like spears.

We saw two men, in a light canoe, stealing noiselessly down on one of these animals thought to be asleep; but it was on the alert, and they had quickly to retreat.