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potamus last night, and some elephants appearing this morning, the men 
ran off, and soon killed a fine cow with their spears. The flesh of the 
river horse is very like pork, and much esteemed in tle colony as such. 
My men are now all cutting it up into long strips for drying, roasting it, 
and boiling it, and Jaughing. I am sitting on some grass in the midst of 
ranges of beautiful tree-covered hills, and after this introduction will pro- 
ceed as follows. ‘ 
We came down the river from Sesheki convoyed by Sekeletu and prin- 
cipal men, with about 200 followers. About ten miles below the conflu- 
ence of the Chobe, the rapids began, which compelled us to leave the 
canoes, and march along the bank on foot. Twenty miles brought us to 
the island of Sekote or Kalai. As it was necessary to turn off to the 
no st from this point, in order to avoid Tsetse, I took a canoe and 
went about eight miles farther down to see the Falls of Mosioatunya. 
‘hen five or six miles distant, we saw five columns of smoke ascending 
apparently to the clouds. Taking a little light canoe, when about a mile 
above the spot, and men well acquainted with the rapids, we went to an 
island situated about the middle of the ledge over which the Zambest 
rolls, and then crawling to the edge, peered over into the wonderful abyss 
which constitutes Mosioatunya (smoke sounds). 
“There is always something new from Africa,” said Scipio, or some- 
body as wise. You may see your big Niagara, but you cannot see 4 
river leaping into a straight jacket. Imagine the Thames filled with low 
out again, and our goodly Zambesi flows placidly away to the northeast. 
In looking down into the fissure on the right, one sees nothing but 4 
we visited it, and the southern declination of the sun nearly equal to the 
latitude. An amount of vapor rushes which I never saw equalled 
