The name Pamozima means, "the departed spirits or gods"-- a fit name for a place over which, according to the popular belief, the disembodied souls continually hover.
The rock lowest down in the series is dark reddish-grey syenite.

This seems to have been an upheaving agent, for the mica schists above it are much disturbed.

Dark trappean rocks full of hornblende have in many places burst through these schists, and appear in nodules on the surface.
The highest rock seen is a fine sandstone of closer grain than that at Tette, and quite metamorphosed where it comes into contact with the igneous rocks below it.

It sometimes gives place to quartz and reddish clay schists, much baked by heat.

This is the usual geological condition on the right bank of the Cataracts.