ON AN INVESTIGATION OF THE BATOKA GORGE, 293 
command of a detachment of native police. It also happened that Colonel 
Frank Rhodes, who took a very keen interest in everything pertaining 
to this region, was at this time visiting the Falls with the intention of 
making a further journey into the veld, and to our great satisfaction he 
expressed his readiness to join us.! 
Starting from the Falls on July 7, we followed the route, along the 
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map. Our first camp was pitched at the Songwi stream, seven miles 
‘ With the memory of his genial companionship fresh in mind, it was with deep 
sorrow that during my homeward voyage I learnt of the untimely death of Colonel 
Rhodes at Cape Town on September 21, jusf two months after we had parted af 
Wankie’s Drift, 
