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a considerable time amongst the abundant fauna on its 

 banks. Retracing my steps somewhat, and with many 

 halts, I returned to Petauke at the end of July to refit. 

 After a short excursion northward, I started at the end of 

 August on a trip I had long contemplated to the high 

 plateau country west of the Mchinga range. Having 

 crossed the Loangwa and Lukashashi rivers, which are 

 separated by the Niamgoza mountains, a further 30 miles 

 brought me to the well marked escarpment of the 

 Mchingas. 



Upon the plateau, which extends to the Kafue and 

 beyond it, I found a very different fauna, as the collections 

 will, I think, show. The boundary between N.E. and 

 N.W. Rhodesia has been recently changed, and this part 

 of the country is now under the latter administration. 



Travelling slowly in a N.W. direction, through a 

 thinly populated but magnificent country, with abundance 

 of running streams, I reached the new Government 

 station at Ndola, close to a large native village known as 

 Chewallas. Here I was most hospitably received by 

 Mr. J. E. Stephenson, the Native Commissioner. 



Leaving this place I turned S.W. and struck the 

 Kafue river (there locally called the Livu) some 50 miles 

 below its source. Thence I travelled southwards to 

 Kapopo an old government post now deserted and spent 

 some days at a remarkable limestone pool at no great 

 distance from that place. This pool which is probably 

 due to a subsidence in the limestone, is roughly square, 

 the length of a side being about 200 yards. It lies in 

 the midst of a flat piece of country and has precipitous 

 sides. The surface of the water, at this, the driest season 

 of the year, was some 15 feet below the top of the walls. 

 Attempts were made to sound it, but although 300 feet of 

 rope were used, bottom could not be found at that depth, 



