36 WILD-FOWL 



than they settled tranquilly down again as though 

 nothing extraordinary had happened. 



In all the districts of Zambezia wild-fowl are 

 found, but in no other portion of that wide region 

 have I observed them in such bewildering 

 numbers and varieties as in the great marshes 

 which form, I believe, the sources of the Mupa 

 and Mungari and probably other unmapped 

 rivers of this little known and interesting district. 



