Their food consists entirely of grain, which they greatly prefer to meat, even when this is offered to them.

They boil this grain, which resembles millet or canary seed, into a sort of porridge, which they eat with the greatest gusto, and one meal a day seems to suffice them.
And now to describe the fatherland of these natives, just emerging as it is from darkness and strife to prosperity, peace, and, quite possibly, riches beyond the dreams of avarice, but in any case riches, sufficiently proved to enable it to take its place ere long among the treasure-producing territories of God's earth.

Once north of the Zambesi, and with the thunder of those magnificent Falls still ringing in one's ears, two things were evident even to the most casual traveller--viz., the changed aspect of the country and of its inhabitants.

Of the latter and of their quaint greeting I have already spoken.

And as regards the road itself and the surrounding landscape there is a still greater change.