A large, rounded mass of granite, a thousand feet high, called _Nombe rume_, stand on the plain a few miles off.

It is quite remarkable, because it has so little vegetation on it.

Several other granitic hills stand near it, ornamented with trees, like most heights of this country, and a heap of blue mountains appears away in the north.
The effect of the piercing winds upon the men had never been got rid of.
Several had been unable to carry a load ever since we ascended to the highlands; we had lost one, and another poor lad was so ill as to cause us great anxiety.

By waiting in this village, which was so old that it was full of vermin, all became worse.

Our European food was entirely expended, and native meal, though finely ground, has so many sharp angular particles in it, that it brought back dysentery, from which we had suffered so much in May.