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tions in Southern Africa, and the earnestness with which this in- 
trepid traveller has engaged in a new expedition, give a peculiar 
interest to all investigations in that part of the world. 
other inquiries which have long been unsettled, the extent and 
course of the River Cunene, or Nourse, emptying into the At- 
lantic Ocean, in lat. 17° 80’ S., now appears to be determined. 
Pimentel, Chapman, Owen, and others had given concerning it 
such contradictory accounts, that at one time it was supposed to 
be a large river furnishing the readiest access to Central Africa, 
and navigable for the largest ships, and at another it was doubt- 
ful whether it even extended to the ocean. 
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Was navigable throughout its course. ped 
€ mouth of the river is on the west coast and not up n the 
l, as is erroneousl represented on the chart to the ‘Investi- 
_ of Lopez de Sane into the Statistics of our transmarine 
Ossessions,’-. 
: According to the representation of the Bush traders respect- 
ie the course of the ek and the account of the Muimbas and 
Usimbas, tribes living upon the left shore of the Cunene, this 
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of the natives means Highlands), constitutes the boundary be- 
‘Ween Molomba and Kamba boo by Canhama, situated on its 
ry country, I deter- 
ith a view of rendering a service to my coul meh re 7 
convince m , ie anigis grein wei 
yself of what degree of impo : 
ney Interests of the commerce with Africa I i dingly 
8d of November ; 2 bogs 
i , with Messrs. 
Fe aitector of baboons as A. de Oliveiro Cavalho, José D 
Antonio R. Fi who ha ee Te ee at 
ompany me. We sailed southward, x, : = 
point of the Great Fish bay on the 8 ov 
