CHAPTER VI 



BETWEEN THE ZAMBEZI AND THE PUNGWE* 



Departure for Chinde — A Cyclone — Description of Chind6 — The 

 Zambezi — From Marromeu to Mopea — Chupanga — Man-eating 

 Lions — From Chimbwe to Sena — The Kudu — The Nyala — A 

 Dreary Feast — The Mountains of Chiringoma — Return to Beira — 

 Departure for a last Expedition — Kafir Canoes — Water-fowl 

 Shooting and Wonderful Fishing — A Rise of the Pungwe — A Storm — 

 Sojourn at M'sassa Barao — The Egret — Hippopotamuses — The 

 Urema and its Canal from the Zambezi to the Pungwe — Arrival 

 at Chitengo — My Last Lions — Return to France 



On November 22nd, 1906, my wife went down to 

 Beira, which we had not seen for two years and a half. 

 I spent several days there making the necessary pur- 

 chases for my next expedition to the Zambezi and 

 despatching important collections to the Museum. 

 As my departure was fixed for December 6th, at five 

 o'clock in the morning, I embarked on the evening 

 of December 5th, leaving my wife with friends, as she 

 was too fatigued by our last hard campaign to accom- 

 pany me on an expedition so trying as the one I was 

 about to undertake. The Nyasaland, in which I 

 embarked, is a small steamer of 300 tons, which, 

 together with two German boats, forms the service 

 of this coast. I was the only passenger on board 

 this vessel, which was laden with dynamite and 

 material for the Shire railway at present in construction. 

 I dined with the captain and slept in a separate 



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