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and 700 or 800 yards distant. We now, from this standing- 

 point, therefore, completed our inspection of alllvebrabasa, and 

 saw what, as a whole, was never before seen by Europeans so 

 far as any records show. 



The difference of level between Pajodze and Tette, as 

 shown by the barometer, was about 160 feet ; but it must 

 be remembered that we had no simultaneous observations at 

 the two stations. The somewhat conical shape of Zaka- 

 vuma standing on the right, and the more castellated 

 form of Morumbwa on the left, constitute the narrow gate- 

 way in which the cataract exists. The talus of each portal, 

 keeping close together northwards, makes a narrow, upright- 

 sided trough from the cataract up to Pajodze. The deep 

 green river winds in it among massive black angular rocks ; 

 above this, as far as Chicova, the Zambesi again has a flood 

 bed and a deep waterworn groove, like that near the lower 

 end of Kebrabasa, but the flood bed is only 200 or 300 

 yards broad, and the stream in this part of the groove 

 is adorned in various places with the white foam of a 

 number of small rapids. By the motion of pieces of 

 wood in the water, and timed by a watch, the current 

 was ascertained to be from 3*3 to 4-1 knots per hour 

 in the more rapid places. We breakfasted a short dis- 

 tance above Pajodze. At a comparatively smooth part 

 of the Zambesi, called Movuzi, still further up, where 

 traders sometimes cross from the southern to the northern 

 bank, a Banyai headman came over with a dozen armed 

 followers, and in an insolent way demanded payment for 

 leave to pass on our way. This was not a friendly 

 request for a present, so our men told him that it was 

 not the custom of the English to pay fines for nothing ; 

 and, being unsuccessful, he went quietly back again. One 



