. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa. d I went away to look at the island, which hadthe marks of hippopotami and a species of jackal on it:it had hard wiry grass, some flowers, and a species ofCapparidaceous tree. The trees showed well the directionof the prevailing wind to be south-east, for the brancheson that side were stunted or killed, while those on thenorth-west ran out straight, and made the trees appear, assailors say, lopsided : the trunks too were bent that way. The canoe-men now said that they would start, then thatthey would sleep here, because we could not
. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in central Africa. d I went away to look at the island, which hadthe marks of hippopotami and a species of jackal on it:it had hard wiry grass, some flowers, and a species ofCapparidaceous tree. The trees showed well the directionof the prevailing wind to be south-east, for the brancheson that side were stunted or killed, while those on thenorth-west ran out straight, and made the trees appear, assailors say, lopsided : the trunks too were bent that way. The canoe-men now said that they would start, then thatthey would sleep here, because we could not reach theIsland Mpabala before dark, and would not get a hut. Isaid that it would be sleeping out of doors only in eithercase, so they went. We could see the island called Kision our east, apparently a double island, about 15 miles off,and the tops of the trees barely visible on Mpabala on oursouth-east. It was all sea horizon on our south and north,between Lifunge and Mpabala, and between Lifunge andKisi. We could not go to Kisi, because, as the cauoe-men. _ , 1808.] VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY. 317 told us, they bad stolon their canoe thence. Though wedecided to go, wo remained awhile to let the sea go hammerheads nest on one of the trees was fully four feelhigh. Coarse rushes show the shoals near the one shell was seen on the shores. The canoe shipsmuch less water in this surf than our boat did in that ofNyassa. The water is of a deep sea-green colour, probablyfrom the reflection of the fine white sand of the bottom; wesaw no part having the deep dark blue of Nyassa, and con-jecture that the depth is not great; but I had to leave ourline when Amoda absconded. On Kisi we observed a darksquare mass, which at first I took to be a low hill: it turnedout to be a mass of trees (probably the place of sepulture,for the graveyards are always untouched), and shows whata dense forest this land would become were it not for theinfluence of men. We reached Mpabala after dark.
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