2 NEAVE, A Journey to North-east Rhodesia. 



I spent a short time on Mt. Kapsuku on the south 

 bank of the Zambesi. Thence, having obtained a supply 

 of carriers, 1 travelled some 60 miles along the north bank 

 of the river, and made a short stay at this point, collect- 

 ing specimens on both banks of the river. Thence I 

 moved in a north-easterly direction, travelling very 

 slowly, crossed the Loangwa at Ntambwa's, some 40 miles 

 above Feira, into Portuguese territory. Here I spent 

 about a month and a half travelling slowly about. By 

 this time the dry season, which lasts from about the 

 beginning of April to the end of October, was at its 

 height, and animal life was relatively speaking not very 

 abundant. 



Early in October I returned to Ntambwa's on the 

 Loangwa, where I found the members of the survey at 

 their base camp. 



The rains were now imminent, and two weeks later I 

 deemed it advisable to start for Petauke, some 120 miles 

 to the N.E., which was reached at the beginning of 

 November. This place being but little to the east of the 

 route the survey proposed to take, I had selected it for 

 my base. This charming spot is a government station, 

 Mr. H. S. Thornicroft being the Native Commissioner, 

 and it was not a little due to his kindness and hospitality 

 that I was able to do a large amount of work there. 

 With the exception of a few short excursions in different 

 directions, I made no journey of any importance until the 

 middle of April, 1905. The rainy season being then over, 

 I started in a S. Easterly direction, through the thickly 

 populated Mbala country, a more open district than I had 

 previously met with. Travelling slowly nearly to the 

 Portuguese border, I turned westward, and crossed the 

 Loangwa river. After visiting members of the survey not 

 far from the west bank, I returned to that river, and spent 



