It is nearly as tall as the palmyra.

The fruit is larger than of that species; it is about four inches long, and has a soft yellow pulp round the kernel or seed; when ripe, it is fluid and stringy, like the wild mango, and not very pleasant to eat.
Before we came to the junction of the Leeba and Leeambye we found the banks twenty feet high, and composed of marly sandstone.

They are covered with trees, and the left bank has the tsetse and elephants.

I suspect the fly has some connection with this animal, and the Portuguese in the district of Tete must think so too, for they call it the 'Musca da elephant' (the elephant fly).
The water of inundation covers even these lofty banks, but does not stand long upon them; hence the crop of trees.

Where it remains for any length of time, trees can not live.