CHAPTER V 



NORTH-EASTERN RHODESIA— IN EXILE 



North-Eastern Rhodesia is a less-travelled 

 territory than the sister dependency of North- 

 western. It is less accessible, more unhealthy, 

 and therefore more wild and unexploited. In 

 1909 L. and I reached its capital, Fort Jameson. 



For twenty-three days we had been trudging 

 along the weary road that leads from sleepy, 

 old-world Tete to the highlands of Angonia. 

 Day by day the broad, sun-kissed waters of 

 the Zambesi had been left farther and farther 

 behind, and the blue hills of the plateau had 

 drawn nearer and nearer. We were tired and 

 foot-sore. One of our little party lay in a 

 crudely constructed " machilla," sick almost 

 unto death, and we two others tramped and 

 tramped along the great white road, the only 

 highway in that world of byways. We pulled 

 ourselves through the hills, then after we had 

 crossed a little river we saw Fort Jameson before 

 us. If you were to ask me which was the 

 most English-looking place in Africa, I should 

 answer Fort Jameson. Even to-day, when the 

 vision of its red-brick bungalows covered with 

 creepers, its church with the turreted towers 

 and aged " West Countrie " appearance, its 

 Government House with the park-like grounds 

 sloping away in front of it, and its broad, peaceful 

 streets, all hemmed in by the towering hills 

 draped with bush and shrub, is not so keen as it 



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