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then accompanied as far as this Fall by Sekeletu and 200 

 followers, his stay was necessarily short ; and the two days 

 there were employed in observations for fixing the geo- 

 graphical position of the place, and turning the showers, 

 that at times sweep from the columns of vapour across the 

 island, to account, in teaching the Makololo arboriculture, 

 and making that garden from which the natives named 

 the island; so that he did not visit the opposite sides of 

 the cleft, nor see the wonderful course of the river be- 

 yond the Falls. The hippopotami had destroyed the trees 

 which were then planted; and, though a strong stockaded 

 hedge was made again, and living orange-trees, cashew- 

 nuts, and coffee seeds, put in afresh, we fear that the per- 

 severance of the hippopotami will overcome the obstacle of 

 the hedge* It would require a resident missionary to rear 

 European fruit-trees. The period, at which the peach and 

 apricot come into blossom, is about the end of the dry sea- 

 son, and artificial irrigation is necessary. The Batoka, the 

 only arboriculturists in the country, rear native fruit-trees 

 alone — the mosibe, the motsikiri, the boma, and others. When 

 a tribe takes an interest in trees, it becomes more attached to 



* The Victoria Falls were visited have visited the country south of the- 



by Sir Eichard Glyn, Bart., and his 

 brother when on a hunting excursion 

 in IS 63. They visited Garden Is- 

 land, and found that our fears of the 

 depredations of the hippopotami had 

 been only too well founded. The fruit 

 trees had been destroyed. Sir Eichard 

 kindly deepened the initials " D. L„ 

 1855," made on a tree on the island 

 when the discovery took place, and 

 the only case in which the letters had 

 been cut by Dr. Livingstone in the 

 country. Traders and others also 



Falls, but we have not seen any new 

 ground described in that quarter, nor 

 does any one else seem to have gone 

 over to the eastern side, and again 

 seen the chasms there. The river 

 Loukwe or Quai, said to have ca- 

 noes upon it, and to join the Zambesi 

 between Mosi - oa - tunya and Sina- 

 mane's, might be interesting to ex- 

 plorers; and Moselekatse, the para- 

 mount lord of the people there, is 

 known to be favourable to the Eng- 

 lish. 



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