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to got back to tho Zambesi again, wo decided to cross the 
bills toward its confluence with tho Kafuo. Tho distance, 
which in a straight lino is but small, occupied throe days. 
Tho precipitous naturo of tho sides of this mass of hills 
knocked up tho oxen and forced us to slaughter two, one 
of which — a vory largo one, and ornamontod with upward 
of thirty pieces of its own skin detached and hanging 
down — Sokoletu had wished us to take to tho whito pooplo 
as a spccimon of his cattle. Wo saw many elephants among 
the hills, and my men ran off and killed throe. When wo 
came to tho top of tho outer rango of tho hills, wo had a 
glorious view. At a short distance below us wo saw tho 
Kafuo, wending away over a forost-clad plain to tho con- 
fluence, and on the other sido of tho Zambesi, boyond that, 
lay a long rango of dark hills. A lino of fleecy clouds 
appearod lying along tho course of that river at their base. 
Tho plain below us, at tho loft of tho Kafue, had more largo 
gamo on it than anywhoro clso I had seen in Africa. 
Hundreds of buffaloes and zebras grazed on tho opon spaces, 
and there stood lordly elephants feeding majestically, 
nothing moving apparently but tho proboscis. I wished 
that I had been ablo to take a photograph of a scono so 
seldom beheld, and which is destined, as guns increase, to 
pass away from earth. When wo descended, wo found all 
tho animals remarkably tame. The elephants stood boneath 
tho trees, fanning themselves with their largo oars, as if 
they did not see us at 200 or 300 yards’ distanco. The 
number of animals was quite astonishing, and mado mo 
think that hero I could realize an imago of that timo when 
Wogatheria fed undisturbod in tho primeval forests. 
Wo tried to leavo one morning, Dut tho rain, coming on 
afresh, brought us to a stand, and after waiting an hour, 
wet to tho skin, wo wore fain to retrace our stops to out 
sheds. Theso rains woro from tho east, and tho clouds 
might bo seen on tho hills exactly as tho n Table-cloth” on 
Table Mountain. This was tho first wotting wo had got 
since we left Sesheke, for I had gained some experience in 
