They filled the air to an immense height, and swarmed upon the water, too light to sink in it.

Eyes and mouth had to be kept closed while passing through this living cloud: they struck upon the face like fine drifting snow.

Thousands lay in the boat when she emerged from the cloud of midges.

The people gather these minute insects by night, and boil them into thick cakes, to be used as a relish--millions of midges in a cake.

A kungo cake, an inch thick, and as large as the blue bonnet of a Scotch ploughman, was offered to us; it was very dark in colour, and tasted not unlike caviare, or salted locusts.
Abundance of excellent fish is found in the lake, and nearly all were new to us.