NOTES. 437 



33. Page 151, /. 10. — There can be no possible doubt that this 

 Portuguese trader was Senhor Silva Porto. (See note, page 123.) An 

 Arab trader from Zanzibar appeared on the scene at the same time 

 (page 153), who was also a famous man in his way. That these three 

 travellers should not only be the first to penetrate Africa, the one from the 

 South, the other from the East, and the third from the West Coasts, 

 but that they should all meet at such a remote part of the continent, is a 

 remarkable coincidence. Dr. Livingstone continued his journey, crossing 

 the continent to Loanda, travelling in a north-westerly direction. Senhor 

 Silva Porto returned to Benguella after sending his two "Pumbeiros" 

 across to the East Coast with letters to the Portuguese governor of 

 Mozambique ; and the Arab trader, accompanied Silva Porto to -Bihe 

 and Benguella, crossing Africa from east to west. The Arab, we know, 

 was after no good ; his journey led to a great general advance among the 

 Arab traders and raiders of Zanzibar into Central Africa ; but the bright 

 and encouraging thought must suggest itself to us that Livingstone was 

 raised up at the right time " to confound their knavish tricks" by bringing 

 to the light of day — as he did so successfully years after — a faithful account 

 of their doings. 



34. Page 152, /. 32. — To-day, however, the natives call the Leeba the 

 Zambesi along its whole course. M. Coillard, in 1895, ascended the 

 Zambesi for some distance beyond the junction of the two rivers. He 

 says : " We saw the confluence with the Zambesi of the Loeti, . . . which 

 comes from the west, . . . then, a little further on, that of the Kabombo 

 on the left bank." {Threshold of Central Africa, page 602.) 



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35. Page 158, /. 38. — The natives of the Upper Zambesi repeatedly 

 told me that I could not do the things the "Great Monare" had 

 done. " He raised his dead relatives to life. We saw them," they in- 

 sisted, " walking across the shadow of the sun." 



36. Page 161, /. 39. — The Makololo thought also that if the moon 

 appeared perpendicular, thus (, they would have abundance of rain that 

 month ; but if the moon appeared lying on her back, thus ^, it bespoke 

 drought, for how could the water spill over ? 



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37. Page 175, /. 29. — One day a reed bock shot in the side 

 by me fell down seemingly dead, and after having his tail hacked 

 off and throat partly cut, sprang up and bounded oft". The country 

 was open all around and the grass had been burned off, only one 

 clump remained ; into this the wounded animal ran. My men sur- 

 rounded the spot, and set fire to the grass ; a hysena ran out. Upon 

 searching the ground the charred remains of a python were found, but no 



