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as also magnificent and unlimited wild-fowl 

 shooting, may be obtained in the Luabo territory, 

 immediately to the south of the southernmost 

 branch of the Zambezi delta. All these wide 

 areas fall within the vast region of Zambezia, 

 and there are, of course, many others wherein 

 moderately good sport can unfailingly be found. 

 But what attracts me in this little-known portion 

 of East Africa is that here the country and the 

 native are largely unspoiled. Here you still 

 receive, if you deserve it, the old-time courtesy 

 traceable, doubtless, to the centuries of Portu- 

 guese occupation, through which the place has 

 come down to us in its still attractive form. 

 There is still something in the very languorous 

 warmth of its tropical climate, and the aspect 

 of the quaint old houses, redolent of Livingstone's 

 earlier journeys, which cannot fail to appeal to 

 the imagination. It is not simply a matter of 

 drawing a cheque and finding your arrangements 

 falling automatically into stride. Here arrange- 

 ments are made in a different way, and occasion- 

 ally at the expense of some little time and 

 patience ; but I have never met anybody who 

 grudged of either what small meed the exigencies 

 of his journey may have cost him. 



I have known Quelimane intimately since 

 1896. Here I have spent much pleasant time, 

 and my recollections of the place are among the 

 most deUghtful among my African memories. 

 Moreover, Quelimane displays no tendency to 

 change like those struggling centres to the south- 

 ward, torn as they are yearly limb from limb 



