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as I should like to have ascertained whether they are of the 

 Zulu family of Caffres or of the Mashona, and also to learn 

 what they really think of white men. I understood from 

 Sekwebu that they consider the whites as a conquered tribe. 



The Zambesi at Mazaro is a magnificent river, more than 

 half a mile wide and without islands. The opposite bank is 

 covered with forests of fine timber ; but the delta, which 

 begins here, is only an immense flat covered with high coarse 

 grass and reeds, with a few mango and cocoa-nut trees. I had 

 a strong desire to follow the Zambesi further, and ascertain 

 where this enormous body of water found its way into the 

 sea ; but on hearing that Captain Parker had ascended to this 

 point, I deemed it unnecessary for me to go over the same 

 ground,* and resolved to continue my route direct to Kilimane 

 by the course of the Mutu. At the point of its departure from 

 the Zambesi this river was only 10 or 12 yards broad, and so 

 filled with aquatic plants, and overhung with trees and reeds, 

 that we were obliged to leave our canoes behind us at Mazaro. 

 During most of the year this part of the Mutu is dry, its bed 

 lying 16 feet above the level of the Zambesi when it is low, 

 and even now we were obliged to carry all our luggage by 

 land for about fifteen miles. As Kilimane is called, in all the 

 Portuguese documents, the capital of the rivers of Senna, it 

 seemed strange to me that the capital should be built at a 

 point where there was no direct water conveyance to the mag- 

 nificent river whose name it bore ; but I was informed that in 

 days of yore the whole of the Mutu was large, and admitted 

 of the free passage of great launches from Kilimane all the 

 year round. 



After we had followed the right bank of the Mutu to the 

 N.N.E. and E. for about fifteen miles we found that it became 

 navigable in consequence of receiving a river from the north 

 called the Pangazi. It is still further increased by the 

 tributary waters of the Lu&re and the Likuare from the same 

 quarter, and the river, thus enlarged and converted into a 

 tidal stream, is thenceforth known as the Kilimane. The 

 Mutu at Mazaro is simply a connecting link between the 

 Kilimane and the Zambesi, and neither its flow nor stoppage 



* Extracts from Captain Parker's description of this part of the river are givt-n 

 in the Appendix to this relume. 



