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serves notice : " Not only the natives," he says, " but Europeans whose 

 constitutions have been impaired by an Indian climate, find the tract 

 of country indicated " the southern borders of the Kalahari " both 

 healthy and restorative .... Cases have been known in which pa- 

 tients have come from the coasts with complaints closely resembling, 

 if they were not actually those of consumption ; and they have re- 

 covered by the influence of the climate alone." 



A subsequent journey in the same direction brought him to the 

 town of Sebituane, chief of the Makololo, from whom he met with a 

 most cordial reception. Unfortunately, the chief fell sick and died 

 shortly after his arrival; but the promise of assistance made before 

 this occurred w r as confirmed by his successor, a daughter, Ma-Mochi- 

 sane. In order to confer with her on the matter, Livingstone made a 

 journey to Shesheke, where she lived, 130 miles to the northeast, in 

 company with Mr. Oswell. It w r as on this journey that they dis- 

 covered the Zambesi, toward the end of June, 1851, even then, the 

 dry season of the year, a magnificent stream 300 or 400 yards broad. 

 In defence of his claim to the discovery, Dr. Livingstone says : " The 

 Portuguese maps all represent the Zambesi as rising far to the east of 

 where we now were ; and, if ever any thing like a chain of trading- 

 stations (as is asserted) had existed across the country between the 

 latitudes 12 and 18 south, this magnificent portion of the river must 

 have been known before." The discovery was indeed important ; and, 

 impelled not only by the prospects it presented, but by the remem- 

 brance of his difficulties at Kolobeng, Livingstone decided to explore 

 the river thoroughly, and meanwhile send his family home to England. 



The journey undertaken with this view commenced in the early 

 part of June, 1852, and "extended from Capetown, at the southern 

 extremity of the continent, to St. Paul de Loando, the capital of Angola 

 on the west coast, and thence across south Central Africa in an oblique 

 direction to Quelimane in Eastern Africa." Besides geographical 

 research, Livingstone tells us that his object was to find if he could 

 " a healthy district that might prove a centre of civilization, and open 

 up the interior by a path to either the east or west coast." 



Glancing rapidly along his route, we are to see our traveller first 

 at Kuruman, where the panic in the country on account of the attack 

 on Kolobeng delayed him. Then at Linyanti, capital of the Makololo, 

 where Sekeletu now reigned in place of his sister Ma-Mochisane, show- 

 ing himself, like his predecessors, favorable to Livingstone. Then 

 with a large body of Makololo, provided by the chief, on December 

 27, 1853, at the confluence of the two streams Leeba and Leeambye, 

 where we pause. 



The Leeambye also called the Kabompo and Zambesi is a large 

 river 300 yards wide, flowing from the eastward, while the Leeba, 250 

 yards wide, comes from the N. N. "W. The junction of the two forms 

 Livingstone's Zambesi, lat. 14 10' 52" S., long. 23" 35' 40" E. Lake 



