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unfavourable reports he has had to furnish of 
the climate of these various districts. Still, 
notwithstanding this, as he says, " I have met 
Arabs, from Zanzibar, subjects of the Imaun 
of Muscat, who had been quite across the 
Continent ; they wrote Arabic fluently in my 
pocket book, and boldly avowed that Mahomet 
was greatest of all the prophets," we cannot 
but confess, it leads to thoughts and reflections 
of some seriousness, when, in connection with 
the assertion, he exclaims, "Shame upon us 
Missionaries, if we are to be outdone by slave- 
traders !" 
Of the fauna of these districts, he gives but 
a brief account ; but describes them as peopled 
with countless herds of game. He writes : 
" Eilands and buffalos ! their tameness was 
shocking to me : 81 buffalos defiled slowly be- 
fore our fire one evening, and lions were impu- 
dent enough to roar at us. On the South of 
the Chobe, where Bushmen abound, they are 
seldom heard, these brave fellows teaching them 
better manners. My boatman informed me 
that he had seen an animal, with long wide- 
spreading horns, like an ox, called u Liombika- 
tela" perhaps the modern Bison. Also another 
animal, which does not live in the water, but 
snorts like a hippopotamus, it is like that ani- 
mal in size, and has a horn, and may be, possi- 
