BETWEEN THE ZAMBEZI AND THE PUNGWE 



In the morning we continued our way and regained 

 the Chinde canal, and after steaming along it for 

 twenty-six miles, reached the Zambezi. In the canal, 

 which is very swampy and bordered with mangroves, 

 we saw a score of hippopotamuses. Five hours from 

 Chinde we passed Zumbo, where the repairing works 

 of the Portuguese gun-boats are situated, and where 

 there are important plantations of cocoa-trees. 



In the neighbourhood we saw numerous villages, 

 round which grew papaw-trees, mangoes, lemons, and 

 kapocks. In the afternoon we entered the Zambezi, 

 which was there over 500 yards wide. A number of 

 hippopotamuses and water-fowl were to be seen. In 

 the evening we reached the village of Sandze, where 

 we spent the night. The captain and I got up at four 

 o'clock and went out to shoot on the right bank, but 

 the grass was already very high and, although I saw 

 a waterbuck and several reedbucks, I only succeeded 

 in shooting one of the latter. 



At half-past eight we left our moorings, and at one 

 o'clock I landed at Marromeu, the end of my voyage. 

 I was there kindly received by Mr. and Mrs. Daniel ; 

 the former being the Director of the Company which 

 owns a large estate of sugar-canes. In his company I 

 visited the fields and factories. In the evening our 

 kind hostess invited Mr. de Souza, the director of the 

 Luabo Company, and another Portuguese, Mr. Jaime, 

 of Gama Cruz, to dinner in order to meet us. The 

 latter gentleman, whom I wish to introduce to the 



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