SPORT IN MOZAMBIQUE 



navigable channel permitting a passage from Beira 

 to Port Herald without transhipments. 



The same day we depart and drop the anchor near 

 the mouth of the Urema, where I remain for three 

 days to finish my work. During this period, except 

 for a couple of pelicans, my game-book is not 

 enriched by any novelties. On the 24th we reascend 

 the Mediguedigue, thanks to a reinforcement of half- 

 a-dozen stalwart men. We have to fight against a 

 furious current, and it takes us three days to reach 

 Macuire, whence to gain Chitengo it occupies two 

 days more. We leave the boat in front of that village, 

 with two negroes in charge of her j while we make 

 an excursion, not on the Sungwe, which is in flood, 

 but on the smah adjacent plains. I am anxious 

 before my approaching departure, to shoot some 

 more lions, a by no means difficult matter according 

 to the reports of the natives. 



On the 30th my available men, assisted by some 

 Chitengo negroes, transport our luggage a short 

 distance from the M'sicatzi hard by a marsh known 

 to the Kafirs as the reed-swamp. We make an enclo- 

 sure of thorns, and on the first day shoot three gnus. 

 I give one to the Chitengo people, a second to our 

 own negroes, while the third serves as bait. During 

 the night I am seized with an attack of fever, which I 

 fight with antipyrin and quinine j but I support 

 the infliction the more cheerfully as I hear the lions 

 roaring all around, and dream of splendid sport. 



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