The entire descent from the Upper to the Lower Shire is 1200 feet.

Only on one spot in all that distance is the current moderate--namely, above Tedzane.

The rest is all rapid, and much of it being only fifty or eighty yards wide, and rushing like a mill-race, it gives the impression of water-power, sufficient to drive all the mills in Manchester, running to waste.

Pamofunda, or Pamozima, has a deep shady grove on its right bank.

When we were walking alone through its dark shade, we were startled by a shocking smell like that of a dissecting- room; and on looking up saw dead bodies in mats suspended from the branches of the trees, a mode of burial somewhat similar to that which we subsequently saw practised by the Parsees in their "towers of silence" at Poonah, near Bombay.