When taking a walk up the slopes of the north bank, we found a great variety of trees we had seen nowhere else.

Those usually met with far inland seem here to approach the coast.

African ebony, generally named _mpingu_, is abundant within eight miles of the sea; it attains a larger size, and has more of the interior black wood than usual.

A good timber tree called _mosoko_ is also found; and we saw half-caste Arabs near the coast cutting up a large log of it into planks.

Before reaching the top of the rise we were in a forest of bamboos.