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and to perform certain ceremonies over the fragments. The 

 vanquished call upon their conquerors to give them a portion 

 also ; and, when this request is complied with, they too perform 

 the same ceremonies, and lament over their dead comrade, 

 after which the late combatants may visit each other in peace. 

 Sometimes the head of the slain is taken and buried in an ant- 

 hill, till all the flesh is gone ; and the lower jaw is then worn 

 as a trophy by the slayer ; but this we never saw, and the fore- 

 going information was obtained only through an interpreter. 

 We left the Zambesi at the mouth of the Zungwe or 

 Mozama or Dela rivulet, up which we proceeded, first in a 

 westerly and then in a north-westerly direction. The Zungwe 

 at this time had no water in its sandy channel for the first 

 eight or ten miles. Willows, however, grow on the banks, 

 and water soon began to appear in the hollows ; and a few 

 miles further up it was a fine flowing stream deliciously 

 cold. As in many other streams from Chicova to near Si- 

 namane, shale and coal crop out in the bank ; and here the 

 large roots of stigmaria or its allied plants were found. We 

 followed the course of the Zungwe to the foot of the Batoka 

 highlands, up whose steep and rugged sides of red and white 

 quartz we climbed till we attained an altitude of upwards of 

 3000 feet. Here, on the cool and bracing heights, the ex- 

 hilaration of mind and body was delightful, as we looked back 

 at the hollow beneath covered with a hot sultry glare, not un- 

 pleasant now that we were in the mild radiance above. We had 

 a noble view of the great valley in which the Zambesi flows. 

 The cultivated portions are so small in comparison to the rest 

 of the landscape that the valley appears nearly all forest, 

 with a few grassy glades. We spent the night of the 28th 

 July high above the level of the sea, by the rivulet Tyotyo, 

 near Tabacheu or Chirebuechina, names both signifying white 



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