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CHAPTEE XL 



Semalembue — Nchoinokela — Mr. Moffat's mission to Moselekatse heard of — 

 • Native game-law — Mountains — Ancient state of country — Neither art nor 

 power possess the effect of ancient miracles — Jealousy of strangers not 

 African but Arab — The Bawe and " Baenda pezi," or " Go-nakeds " — Their 

 hospitality — Leave Zambesi, and ascend Zungwe to Batoka Highlands — 

 Sebetuane — A caim — Batoka men of peace — Arboriculturists — Grave- 

 yards — Muave — Tsetse medicine — Desire for peace — Corn extensively cul- 

 tivated — A poet, and minstrel — Musical instruments — Our naked friend — 

 Polite tobacco-smokers — Bawe never visited by Europeans before — Slave- 

 trade follows our footsteps — Attempt by Governor-General of Mosambique 

 to shut up Kovuma — Seabenzo — Elephant killed — Numbers annually 

 slain — Meteor — The Falls visible upwards of twenty miles off — Fever 

 treated and untreated — Moshobotwane — Meet Makololo near the Falls. 



On the 9th July, we tried to send Semalembue a present, but 

 the people here refused to incur the responsibility of carry- 

 ing it. "We, who have the art of writing, cannot realize 

 the danger one incurs of being accused of purloining a 

 portion of goods sent from one person to another, when the 

 carrier cannot prove that he delivered all committed to his 

 charge. Rumours of a foray having been made, either 

 by Makololo or Batoka, as far as the fork of the Kafue, 

 were received here by our men with great indignation, as it 

 looked as if the marauders were shutting up the country, 

 which they had been trying so much to open. Below the 

 junction of the rivers, on a shallow sandbank, lay a large herd 

 of hippopotami, their bodies out of the water, like masses 

 of black rock. Kambadzo's island, called Nyangalule, a name 

 which occurs again at the mouth of the Zambesi, has many 

 choice Motsikiri (Traclielia) trees on it; and four very con- 

 spicuous stately palms growing out of a single stem. The 



