There was not a blade of grass on some of the hills, it being the end of the usual dry season succeeding a previous severe drought; yet the hill-sides were dotted over with beautiful green trees.

A few antelopes were seen on the rugged slopes, where some people too appeared lying down, taking a cup of beer.

The Karivua narrows are about thirty miles in length.

They end at the mountain Roganora.

Two rocks, twelve or fifteen feet above the water at the time we were there, may in flood be covered and dangerous.