280 LIFE OF DA VI D LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



Leaving the steamer at a safe spot above Panda Maboa, we proceeded up the 

 left bank, the different members pursuing their several avocations as much as 

 the roughness of the march would allow. A careful sketch and a photograph 

 were made of the worst rapid we had then seen ; there was a fall of about 5 

 feet in 20 yards, but on our return a rise of the river of between 3 and 4 feet 

 had made it nearly level. 



" Crossing the Luia, a small river coming into the Zambesi from the 

 North-east (lat. 15° 37' South), we turned Westwards, and soon reached the 

 beginning of the range Shiperizioa, which, without knowing the name, wo 

 had previously seen. This part of the river our guide had only once seen 

 from a distant mountain, and supposed what was now only a small, and by no 

 means steep rapid, to be a large waterfall. The range Shiperizioa, appearing 

 to end in a fine peak at least 2300 feet high, we resolved to ascend it and get 

 a view of the river beyond. A hippopotamus having been killed, a party was 

 left to cut up the meat while we went on to the peak. It was found inaccessible 

 from the river-side. It forms the most prominent feature in the landscape, 

 and we thought it right to pay a compliment to our Portuguese friends, by 

 naming it Mount Stephanie, after their young Queen. As our guide, Sn. Jose, 

 had hunted all along the river to Chicova, and a party of natives who came to 

 beg meat, agreed with him in asserting that no waterfall existed above Mount 

 Stephanie, we began our return to the steamer. But after one day's march 

 homewards one of the Makololo mentioned that he had received information of 

 the existence of a larger cataract than any we had seen, and that too from one 

 of the above-mentioned party of natives, it was at once resolved that Dr. Kirk 

 and I should return and verify this while the rest of the party worked their 

 way downwards. 



" Accompanied by four Makololo, we now proceeded by the back or 

 northern side of Mount Stephanie, and were fortunate enough to find a village 

 situated in a beautiful valley, with a fine stream of water running through it. 

 The people are called Badema, and though mountaineers, possess but little of 

 that brave character which we are accustomed to ascribe to such j)eople. They 

 generally flee from strangers ; their gardens were seen on the highest parts 

 of the mountains ; some of them on slopes at an angle of 70°, where there 

 was very little soil. They cultivate the native cotton in preference to the 

 imported, as the foi'iner, though yielding less, has by far the strongest fibre, 

 and the plants continue yielding annually, though burned down to the ground. 

 They support the branches which remain by trellice-work, as we do grape-vines ; 

 their looms are of the most primitive description, but they value the cloth made 

 from them much more than they do our more beautifully woven fabrics. 



" Zandia, the head man of this village, furnished us with two guides to 

 take us to Pajodzi, the point to which canoes are accustomed to descend ; for 

 though he asserted that there was no waterfall, we considered it our duty to 



