70 DR. LIVINGSTONE'S EXPERIENCES. 



Most of the natural reservoirs of rain water are found, 

 as might be expected, in the depressions in these forests. * 



Dr. David Livingstone during his expedition to the 

 Zambesi, states that near the mouth of the Kafue River, 



" Game of all kinds is in most extraordinary abundance. 

 The drought drives all the game to the river to drink. An 

 hour's walk on the right bank morning or evening reveals a 

 country swarming with wild animals. Vast herds of pallahs, 

 waterbucks, koodoos, buffaloes, wild pigs, elands, zebras and 

 monkeys appear; while francolins, guinea fowls, and myriads 

 of turtle doves attract the eye in the covers, with the fresh 

 spoor of elephants and rhinoceri. Every few miles we came 

 upon a school of hippopotami asleep on some shallows and 

 bank, their bodies nearly all out of the water appeared like 

 masses of black rock in the river." f 



A native hunting party, shortly before Dr. Living- 

 stone's arrival, under the chief Sequasha, had killed 210 

 elephants in 'this same neighbourhood. 



In a marsh on the River Shire, Lat. 16 30' S., Dr. 

 Livingstone says that on one occasion he counted 800 

 elephants in sight at once in August 1859. He says, 

 " the marsh is frequented by vast herds of these animals 

 and prodigious numbers of many kinds of waterfowl. " 



On another occasion in this marsh he saw "Nine 

 large herds of elephants, which formed a line two 

 miles long." 



The following is a description of the game as seen 



* Travels in the Interior of South Africa comprising Fifteen 

 Years' Hunting and Trading (1849 1864), by James Chapman, 

 F.R.G.S. 1868, Vol. ii., pp. 296-7. 



j- Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi (1858 1864), by 

 David Livingstone, edit, of 1875, p. 225. 



Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and the Discovery of 

 Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa (1858 1864), by David and Charles Living- 

 stone, pubd. 1865, p. 97. 



