Large game is abundant.

Elephants, buffaloes, and zebras grazed in large numbers on the long sloping, banks of a river called Chisera, a mile and a half broad.

In going north we crossed this river, or rather marsh, which is full of papyrus plants and reeds.

Our ford was an elephant's path; and the roots of the papyrus, though a carpet to these animals, were sharp and sore to feet usually protected by shoes, and often made us shrink and flounder into holes chest deep.

The Chisera forms a larger marsh west of this, and it gives off its water to the Kalongosi, a feeder of Lake Moero.
The Arabs sent out men in all directions to purchase ivory; but their victory over Nsama had created a panic among the tribes which no verbal assurances could allay.