While collecting wood that evening, I found a bird's nest consisting of live leaves sewn together with threads of the spider's web.

Nothing could exceed the airiness of this pretty contrivance; the threads had been pushed through small punctures and thickened to resemble a knot.

I unfortunately lost it.

This was the second nest I had seen resembling that of the tailor-bird of India.
Next morning, by climbing the highest trees, we could see a fine large sheet of water, but surrounded on all sides by the same impenetrable belt of reeds.

This is the broad part of the River Chobe, and is called Zabesa.