BETWEEN THE ZAMBEZI AND THE PUNGWE 



hut. The next day I took leave of my host and walked 

 to the sugar-plantation of Mopea, which I visited, 

 after having inspected and admired Mr. Jaime's 

 property at Maruro and the splendid mango-forest 

 of Mazaro, the last vestiges of the settlements of the 

 Portuguese Jesuits before their expulsion by the 

 Marquis de Pombat. Under the kind guidance of 

 the director of Mopea, Mr. Vroon, a Dutchman, I 

 visited the works, and in the evening I dined with 

 him. The following day, accompanied by the doctor 

 and the estate-agent, I went to Inhamarrolle ; there 

 we found the escalere belonging to the Jesuit Fathers 

 of Chupanga, which took us to the opposite bank where 

 their mission-house stands. 



Being cordially received by the superior, a French- 

 man, Father Loubieres, I stayed thirty-six hours at 

 Chupanga. In the cemetery of this mission are 

 interred the wife of the great explorer, Livingstone, 

 and a young German who met his death through his 

 rashness in hunting. He had wounded a buffalo, 

 and, thinking it dead, had opened his camera to take 

 a photograph. While he was thus engaged the buffalo 

 got up, fell on the unfortunate man and gored him to 

 death ; the Jesuits, hearing of the accident from the 

 negroes, who had fled from the spot, went there and 

 found the body, which they buried. The mission-house 

 is well built and well situated, and has a pretty garden 

 and fine herds. It adjoins the splendid forest of Chu- 

 panga which joins the Chiringoma forest. It is the 



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