154 ESCAPE FROM RHINOCEROS. CHAP. VI. 



the distant mountains of which, in the sonth, still in- 

 habited by their fellow-countrymen, who possess much 

 cattle and use shields, can be seen from this high ground. 

 These people profess to be children of the great paramount 

 chief, Kwanyakarombe, who is said to be lord of all the 

 Bazizulu. The name of this tribe is known to geo- 

 graphers, who derive their information from the Portu- 

 guese, as the Morusurus, and the hills mentioned above 

 are said to have been the country of Changamira, the 

 warrior-chief of history, whom no Portuguese ever dared 

 to approach. The Bazizulu seem, by report, to be brave 

 mountaineers; nearer the river, the Sidima inhabit the 

 plains ; just as on the north side, the Babimpe live on the 

 heights, about two days off, and the Makoa on or near the 

 river. The chief of the Bazizulu we were now with was 

 hospitable and friendly. A herd of buffaloes came tramp- 

 ling through the gardens and roused up our men ; a feat 

 that roaring lions seldom achieved. 



Our course next day passed over the upper terrace and 

 through a dense thorn jungle. Travelling is always diffi- 

 cult where there is no path, but it is even more perplexing 

 where the forest is cut up by many game-tracks. Here 

 we got separated from one another, and a rhinoceros with 

 angry snort dashed at Dr. Livingstone as he stooped to 

 pick up a specimen of the wild fruit morula ; but she 

 strangely stopped stock-still when less than her own 

 length distant, and gave him time to escape ; a branch 

 pulled out his watch as he ran, and turning half round 

 to grasp it, he got a distant glance of her and her calf 

 still standing on the selfsame spot, as if arrested in the 

 middle of her charge by an unseen hand. When about 

 fifty yards off, thinking his companions close behind, he 

 shouted " Look out there ! " when off she rushed, snorting 

 loudly, in another direction. The Doctor usually went 

 unarmed before this, but never afterwards. 



