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MATABELE LAND. 



and at last we got over, the water only just taking 

 the oxen off their feet. In dry weather there is 

 hardly any water, but after the rains the river gets 

 tremendously swollen, and there are very steep banks. 

 Whilst waiting there Dawnay 1 came up with two 



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BOERS' FARMS, CROCODILE RIVER. 



waggons. He has been out two years and been 

 to the Victoria Falls. He says it would be worth 

 walking from Durban to see them; He showed me 

 some little sketches he had made, but said it was 

 almost impossible to draw on account of the flies. 

 The tsetse-fly, which kills everything except men, 

 wild beasts, and donkeys, swarms there, and bites so 

 furiously that your hands and face are puffed up in 

 no time. He describes the scenery on the Zambesi 

 as lovely. 



1 The Hon. G. C. Dawnay, on his way home from the Zambesi. 



