The appearance of a whydahbird showed that he had not yet parted with his fine long plumes.
We passed immense quantities of ebony and lignum-vitae, and the tree from whose smooth and bitter bark granaries are made for corn.

The country generally is clothed with a forest of ordinary-sized trees.

We slept in the little village near Sindabwe, where our men contrived to purchase plenty of beer, and were uncommonly boisterous all the evening.

We breakfasted next morning under green wild date-palms, beside the fine flowery stream, which runs through the charming valley of Zibah.

We now had Mount Chiperiziwa between us, and part of the river near Morumbwa, having in fact come north about in order to avoid the difficulties of our former path.