CHAPTER XI. 



CHICOVA TO TETE./ 



District of Chicova — Agriculture — Game Laws — Banyai Prayers — Makololo 

 Faith — Insect Life— Birds — Their Songs — Squirrel — Geological Features — 

 Grapes — Plums — Animal Life — Superstition about Lions — The Korwe — A 

 Model Husband — Helpful Facts — Government of the Banyai — Selecting 

 Chiefs — Monina's Opposition — Fight Threatened — Sudden Derangement — 

 Conscience at Work — " A Guilt" — An Ordeal — Woman's Rights — The Son-in- 

 Law — Dignity of Woman — Good Husbands, Bad Hunters — The Rhinoceros — 

 Andersson's Adventure — Terrible Encounter — Rhinoceros Among Beasts — 

 Villages Avoided — Nearing Tete — Livingstone Emaciated — Eight Miles Only 

 — A Retrospect — A Prospect — Noble Picture — Arrival of Messengers — Civil- 

 ized Breakfast — Reception at Tete — The Source of the Zambesi Unknown — 

 The Value of the Discovery. 



Although it was most desirable to follow the river as 

 closely as possible, the continued floods, together with the hos- 

 tile character of some of the petty chiefs who would be on the 

 line of that route, determined Dr. Livingstone on a more south- 

 ern path across the district of Chicova. This prevented his 

 making any observations of the Zambesi between the hills west 

 of the Chicova flats and the town of Tete. The section of 

 country through which he passed was not wanting in beauty, 

 and there were some things of special interest, on account of 

 which he was rather gratified by the change of route. The 

 district had been reported to contain silver mines, and the 

 curiosity of one so long buried in the wilds was awake for such 

 evidences of European enterprise. His own investigations did 

 not, however, confirm the report ; the natives knew nothing of 

 silver. But the finding of coal and the news of gold-washings 

 relieved the disappointment as to silver. 



There were no herds to remind him of the more inland 

 friends, for the tsetse dwells along the little streams and rivu- 

 lets which thread the country ; the inhabitants are therefore 

 devoted to agricultural pursuits, perhaps as much from neces- 

 sity as from preference. They are a good-looking, manly set, 

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