Mkushi to Broken Hill 



last stage, and being on a real road once more, we 

 went along in fine style, uphill and down dale. 

 " Cooky," still delighting in the role of guide, 

 assured us that we should see the settlement from 

 the summit of every succeeding rise we topped. 

 As a matter of fact, it took exactly an hour and a 

 half before signs of a house appeared in the forest, 

 and then we suddenly found ourselves inside the 

 station. I was quite sorry to get out for the last 

 time from the machilla in which I had covered over 

 one thousand miles, and to realize that our journey, 

 which had lasted sixteen weeks since leaving Blan- 

 tyre, eight weeks from Fort Jameson and six weeks 

 from Mpika, was really at an end. 



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