The land near the river was so very much intersected by ravines, that search had to be made, a mile from its banks, for more level ground.

Experienced Hottentot drivers would have taken Cape wagons without any other trouble than that of occasionally cutting down a tree.

No tsetse infested this district, and the cattle brought from Johanna flourished on the abundant pasture.

The first half-mile of road led up, by a gradual slope, to an altitude of two hundred feet above the ship, and a sensible difference of climate was felt even there.

For the remainder of the distance the height increased,--till, at the uppermost cataract, we were more than 1200 feet above the sea.