chaucie or an elephant. 
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a linger distance. My mon killod another hero, and re- 
warded tho villagers of tho Chiponga for their liberality in 
meal by loading them with flesh. We spent a night at a 
baobab, which was hollow and would hold twenty mon 
inside. It had been used as a lodging-house by tho Babisa. 
As we approached nearer tho Zambesi, tho country became 
covered with broad-leaved bushes, pretty thickly planted, 
and wo had several timos to shout to olephants to get out 
ot our way. At an open spaco, a herd of buffaloes came 
trotting up to look at our oxen ; and it was only by shooting 
ono that 1 mado them retreat. The meat is very much like 
that of an ox, and this ono was very fine. Tho only danger 
wo actually encountered was from a femalo elophant, with 
throo young ones of different sixes. Charging through the 
centre of our extended lino, and causing tho mon to throw 
down their burdens in a great hurry, sho received a spear 
for her temerity. I never saw an elophant with moro 
than ono calf before. We know that wo were near our 
Zambesi again, even before tho great river burst upon our 
sight, by tho numbers of waterfowl wo mot. I killod 
four gecso with two shots, and, had I followed tho wishes 
of my men, could have secured a meal of waterfowl for 
the whole party. I never saw a river with so much animal 
lifo around and in it, and, as the Barotso say, “ Its fish and 
fowl aro always fat." When onr eves woro gladdened by a 
view of its goodly broad waters, wo found it very much 
larger than it is even abovo tho falls. One might try to 
make his voico heard across it in vain. Its flow was more 
rapid than near Soshckc, being often four and a half milos 
ln hour; and, what I never saw before, tho water was dis- 
colored and of a deep brownish red. In tho great valloy 
tho Lecambyo never becomes of this color. Tho adjacent 
country, so far north as is known, is all level, and tho soil, 
being generally covered with dense herbage, is not abraded • 
but on tho eastern ridgo tho caso is different : tho grass if 
short, and, the elevation being great, tho soil is washod 
down by the streams, and hence the discoloration which 
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