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Lewanika that I intended visiting his country as soon as he could get 
boats down to Livingstone to take me up the river to Lialui, his capital. 
Upon my arrival at Victoria Falls, July 21, I immediately went to Old 
Livingstone to see Imasho, the king’s Headman to see if the boats were 
waiting, but found that they were still on their way down, he having 
heard by a runner or messenger that the king was sending for me. 
“That evening upon my return to the Falls Hotel I found a message 
telling me that the Induna in charge of the boats had arrived. I im- 
mediately made ready to leave for Old Livingstone. The next morning, 
July 28, | was up at break of day and found the king’s carriers waiting 
for me. ‘There were sixteen in all, eighteen including my interpreter 
and cook. Upon reaching Old Livingstone, which was late in the day, 
I camped for the night, making plans to leave at daybreak for the boats, 
which had to be left five miles farther up the river, on account of the 
dangerous rapids. We reached the boats at 10 A. M. and left imme- 
diately for Kazeungula the first important native village on our route, 
although there are many small kraals between. Only one white man 
trades with the natives in that village. After leaving Kazeungula and 
paddling two days we came to the great game country. Here I camped 
three or four days to secure food for the natives. 
“August saw us again on our way up the river toward Lialui. 
After three days we reached Nilesia, which to my mind is the most 
beautiful spot on the whole river. Tere the country is covered with 
thick bushes and abounds in lions. We could hear them roaring long 
before dark, and they kept up their noise all night. We had to keep big 
fires going to keep them away. Early next morning a Dutch transport 
rider came to my camp and asked me to assist him in hunting some lions 
which had killed five of his oxen. ‘Phat night we took up the spoor and 
after following it for four miles, we came upon one lion, one lioness and 
two cubs. We got the lion and both cubs, but the lioness, although 
badly wounded, got away into the tall grass. We did not go after her, as 
it is a very dangerous undertaking to follow up a wounded lion, a thing 
that only inexperienced hunters will do, as there is only one chance in 
ten of getting away alive. After removing and caring for the skins, we 
proceeded on our journey, but since we had many rapids to cross, our 
progress was very slow. We reached more rapids next day about noon; 
here we had to take everything out of the boats and pull them overland, 
a distance of 300 yards. ‘This took us until 4 o’clock, and we pitched 
