An incrustation, smelling of sulphur, has been deposited by the water on the stones.

About a hundred feet from the eye of the fountain the mud is as hot as can be borne by the body.

In taking a bath there, it makes the skin perfectly clean, and none of the mud adheres: it is strange that the Portuguese do not resort to it for the numerous cutaneous diseases with which they are so often afflicted.
A few clumps of the palm and acacia trees appear west of Morambala, on the rich plain forming the tongue of land between the rivers Shire and Zambesi.

This is a good place for all sorts of game.

The Zambesi canoe- men were afraid to sleep on it from the idea of lions being there; they preferred to pass the night on an island.