CHAPTER III 



THE BIVER ZAMBEZI AND ITS SCENERY : CHINDE, 

 SHUPANGA, MORAMBALA, INYANGOMA, MUTE- 

 RARA, LUPATA, TETE 



The River Zambezi, rising in the Lunda country 

 on the borders of Angola, has a total course of over 

 1,200 miles, and drains an area estimated at more 

 than 600,000 square miles. Its headwaters can 

 scarcely yet be regarded as fully explored, but it is 

 considered probable that the true source flows from 

 the east of the marshy lake Dilolo, situated about 

 12° S. lat. and 22° E. long. This branch, known 

 as the Liba, which, for want of better data to go 

 upon, we wiU regard as the beginning of aU things 

 Zambezian, is soon joined by the Lungo-e-bungo, 

 or Dungeungo, coming from near Kabuta in the 

 Massamba mountains, and the Liambe, or Yambaji, 

 which rises in Kazembe's country. These three 

 branches coming together, and swollen by the 

 waters of the Uyengo, form what is called the 

 Upper Zambezi, and flow south by east through 

 Barotseland, now becoming better known as 

 Lewanika's country ; thence, as it receives the 

 Linyanti or Chobe, it trends almost due east, and 

 soon after thunders over that eighth wonder of 



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