CHAPTER II 



ZAMBEZIA : WHERE IT IS, AND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE 



I HAVE already given an imperfect description of 

 the large and important division of the Province 

 of Mozambique which has come to be called 

 Zambezia in a book bearing that name, and 

 although this chapter becomes necessary by reason 

 of the smallness of the knowledge of the average 

 individual regarding so out-of-the-way a portion 

 of the earth's surface, I hope I may not be con- 

 sidered as having neglected this splendid region 

 if I do not give more than a passing glance at its 

 manifold beauties and attractions in a book which 

 is, after all, meant to be a book on big game. I 

 have repeatedly stated elsewhere that for any- 

 thing like a full account of Zambezia, its mar- 

 vellous scenery, and its wealth of every description 

 of natural science, a book consisting of half a 

 dozen portly volumes were surely all too insuffi- 

 cient and inadequate. It is one of those im- 

 mense slices of Africa whose vastness is a thing 

 which stay-at-home Europeans experience diffi- 

 culty in stretching their faculties even dimly to 

 appreciate. It contains almost every variety of 

 climate and scenery — every beauty of African 

 landscape. 



The division of which Zambezia may be re- 



