628 THE MUTU RIVHR. 



though we had brought canoes and a boat from Tete, we 

 were unable to enter the Mutu with them, and left them 

 at Mazaro. During most of the year, this part of the 

 Mutu is dry, and we were even now 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 magnificent river whose 

 name it bore ; and on inquiry, I was informed that the 

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

 of the free passage of great launches from Kilimane all 

 the year round ; but that now this part of the Mutu had 

 been filled up. 



I was seized by a severe tertian fever at Mazaro, but 

 went along the right bank of the Mutu to the N.N.B. and 

 B. for about 15 miles. We then found that it was made 

 navigable by a river called the Pangdzi, which comes into 

 it from the north. Another river, flowing from the same 

 direction, called the Luare, swells it still more ; and, 

 last of all, the Likudre, with the tide, make up the river 

 of Kilimane. The Mutu at Mazaro is simply a connecting 

 link, such as is often seen in Africa, and neither its flow 

 nor stoppage affects the river of Kilimane. The waters 

 of the Pangazi were quite clear compared with those of 

 the Zambesi.* 



* I owe the following information, of a much later date, also to the 

 politeness of Captain Washington. H.M. sloop "Grecian" visited 

 the coast in 1852-3, and the master remarks that "the entrance to 

 the Luabo is in lat. 18 51' S., long. 36 12' E., and may be known 

 by a range of hummocks on its eastern side, and very low land to the 

 S.W. The entrance is narrow, and, as with all the rivers on this 

 coast, is fronted by a bar, which renders the navigation, particularly 

 for boats, very dangerous with the wind to the south of east or west. 

 Our boats proceeded 20 miles up this river, 2 fathoms on the bar, then 

 i\ — 4 — 6 — 7 fathoms. It was navigable further up, but they did not 

 proceed. It is quite possible for a moderate-sized vessel to cross the 

 bar at spring tides, and be perfectly landlocked and hidden amongst 

 the trees. 



"The Maiiido, in 18 52' S., 36 12' E., is not mentioned in Hors- 

 burgh, nor laid down in the Admiralty chart, but is, nevertheless, one 

 of some importance, and appears to be one of the principal stations for 

 shipping slaves, as the boats found two barracoons, about 20 miles up, 

 bearing every indication of having been very recently occupied, and 



