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driver and other boys through being at the Zambesi 
in the unhealthy season. Indeed, he went there at 
what is supposed to be an extremely unhealthy 
time. I think it was February when he left here, 
and April and May are, I believe, the very worst 
months on the Zambesi. I left, as I have told you, 
early in June, intending to be back again before the 
end of the year, which every one says is the proper 
thing to do. Both Garland and Dawnay succeeded 
in seeing the Falls last year by doing so, and this 
year there are others who have probably seen them 
by this- time. Now it is not too late to go there this 
season still, though the time one can spend there is 
shortened by not leaving earlier, for it takes about a 
month to reach the place where the waggons stand, 
and allowing another month for visiting the Falls, 
and a month for returning here, there is no doubt 
the Falls could be comfortably visited during a three 
months' absence from Tati, and there would be 
nothing remarkable in doing it all in two months 
with good oxen and good servants. So I can still 
go there, and be back again as soon as I ever in- 
tended to be. 
" I am now coming to my new arrangement, which 
I think is in many respects a very promising one, 
for a final attempt to reach the Falls. The trader I 
speak of (' Stoffel Kennedy,' or some such name), 
has actually been at the Falls. He was there with 
Garland last year, and knows the country well. He 
knows where the poison-plant is, and where the 
tsetse-fly. He knows the people of the country, 
