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1 shall over remerabor his kindness with deep gratitndo 
Ho has written mo, since my arrival in England, that my 
men had killed four elephants in the course of two months 
after my departure. 
On tho day of my arrival I was visited by all the gontle- 
mon of tho village, both white and colored, including the 
padro. Not ono of thorn had any idea as to whero tho 
sourco of tho Zambesi lay. They sont for tho bost-travollod 
natives; but none of tnom know tho rivor ovon as far as 
Kansala. Tho father of ono of tho robols who had boon 
fighting against thorn had been a groat traveller to tho 
southwest, and had even heard of our visit to Lake N garni; 
but ho was equally ignorant with all the others that the 
Zambesi flowed in tho centre of tho country. They had, 
howover, more knowledge of the country to tho north of 
Toto than I had. Ono man, who had gono to Cazombo 
with Major Montoiro, stated that ho had seen tho Luapura 
or Loapula flowing past tho town of that chioftain into tho 
Luamoji or Locambyo, but imagined that it found its way, 
somehow or other, into Angola. Tho fact that sometimes 
rivers wero soon to flow like this toward tho centre of tho 
country led geographers to tho supposition that Inner 
Africa was composed of olovated sandy plains, into which 
rivers ran and woi’o lost. Ono of tho gentlemen present, 
Sonhor Candido, had visited a lake forty-fivo days to tho 
N.N.W. of Toto, which is probably tho Lako Maravi of 
geographers, as in going thither they pass through tho 
pooplo of that name. Tho inhabitants of its southern coast 
aro named Shiva, thoso on tho north, Mujao; and they call 
tho lako Nyunja or Nyanjo, which simply means a largo 
water, or bod of a largo rivor. A high mountain stands 
in tho middlo of it, called Murombo or Murombola, which 
is inhabited by pcoplo who have much cattlo. Ho statod 
that ho crossed tho Nyunja at a narrow part, and was 
thirty-six hours in the passago. Tho canoes wero punted 
tho wholo way, and, if wo tako tho rato about two miloa 
per hour, it may bo sixty or seventy miles in breadth. The 
