62 KEBRABASA SURVEY COMPLETED. Ch a p . II.
took them three hours’ hard labour in cutting their
way up through the dense thornbush which covered the
ascent. The face of the slope was often about an angle
of 70°, yet their guide Shokumbenla, whose hard, homy
soles, resembling those of elephants, showed that he was
accustomed to this rough and hot work, carried a pot of
water for them nearly all the way up. They slept that
night at a well in a tufaceous rock on the N.W. of Chi-
pereziwa, and never was sleep more sweet.
