Lilongwe to Fort Jameson 



Lakes Company at Fort Jameson to say that we 

 hoped to arrive there the next day. I also took the 

 opportunity of photographing my machilla team and 

 the porters with their loads, as after Fort Jameson 

 we anticipated changes. 



1 6th. — As we had a long journey before us, we 

 were under way by 6 a.m. For the first few miles 

 our route ran along the edge of the foothills, and we 

 saw both zebra and hartebeest along the road. We 

 then turned westward into a belt of dense forest 

 and followed a native path that cut across the 

 hills to Fort Jameson. The scenery was fine 

 and bold. We found ourselves once more on the 

 banks of the Livilezi, where its channel formed 

 a deep gorge. After skirting the river for another 

 hour or so, rising all the way, we got on to the 

 rolling-down-like country which forms the summit 

 of the Michingi range and stopped at ii a.m. 

 Fort Jameson, though no great distance as the crow 

 flies, was still ten or twelve miles by road. Everyone 

 was .tired, and we decided to camp. While the tents 

 v/ere being pitched the messenger we had sent to 

 Fort Jameson the previous day returned with letters, 

 among them a most kindly-worded invitation from 

 Judge Beaufort offering us hospitality during our 

 stay. This letter caused us to change our plans 

 again. We started off the bulk of our loads at 

 2.30 P.M., and followed ourselves at 4.30. 



After a mile or two, the road descending abruptly 

 from the frontier mountains over which we had been 

 travelling to the North-East Rhodesian plain, was 

 so steep that we had to get out of our machillas 



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