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at the Zambesi in the unhealthy season. Indeed, he 

 went there at what is supposed to be an extremely- 

 unhealthy time. I think it was February when he 

 left here, and April and May are, I believe, the very 

 worst months on the Zambesi. I left, as I have told 

 you, early in June, intending to be back again before 

 the end of the year, which every one says is the proper 

 thing to do. Both Garland and Dawnay succeeded 

 in seeing the Falls last year by doing so, and this 

 year there are others who have probably seen them 

 by this time. Now it is not too late to go there this 

 season still, though the time one can spend there is 

 shortened by not leaving earlier; for it takes about a 

 month to reach the place where the waggons stand, 

 and allowing another month for visiting the Falls, 

 and a month for returning here, there is no doubt 

 the Falls could be comfortably visited during a three 

 months' absence from Tati, and there would be 

 nothing remarkable in doing it all in two months 

 with good oxen and good servants. So I can still 

 go there, and be back again as soon as I ever in- 

 tended to be. 



" I am now coming to my new arrangement, which 

 I think is in many respects a very promising one, 

 for a final attempt to reach the Falls. The trader I 

 speak of (' Stoffel Kennedy,' or some such name), 1 

 has actually been at the Falls. He was there with 

 Garland last year, and knows the country well. He 

 knows where the 'poison-plant' is, and where the 



1 Stoffel Schendehutte, known by the traders as "Stoffel Sken- 

 nedy ;" a man of German parentage, brought up at Hope Town. 



