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accompanied by other traders, who wished to purchase 
all the things I did not require on the return journey. 
They had been almost daily informed of my move¬ 
ments by Bushmen spies. Their names were C. W. 
Broderson, from Copenhagen ; 0. Anderson, from 
Drontheim; George Knuttel, a worthy fellow country¬ 
man of my own ; and Henry Colville, an Englishman 
from the Cape Colony, who had been brought very 
low by fever. Four days before our meeting, poor 
Anderson had been suddenly seized and tossed by 
a black rhinoceros. He had an open wound on the 
left ribs, and the shock of the fall had been so great 
that he had been unable to move for thirty-six hours 
after it. 
I could only meet the entreaties of my new acquain¬ 
tances that I would turn back with the assurance that 
I could not possibly give up my march to the Victoria 
Falls at a time so favourable for lunar observations, 
but as I should be glad to meet their views as well as 
1 could, I advised them to wait for my return at 
Wanki’s village, where they could recruit their strength. 
They were all more or less emaciated and looked half 
starved, so that this really was the best advice that 
could be given them. We parted, and I resumed my 
march. The hills over which we were now passing 
were of a brownish-yellow colour, and the banks of the 
mighty Zambesi River on our right were bordered by 
luxuriant vegetation. 
I made the following remarks on the colours and 
general character of the scenery in my journal:— 
“ One might fancy oneself to lie wandering about in 
Germany late in the autumn. The forest is almost 
bare, its colour is grey ; most of the trees and bushes 
are leafless. Here and there from the sides of the hills 
rise dark and rugged rocks. Only in the lowest and 
most sheltered spots do the mopane trees still display 
their bright yellowish-red foliage ; but the cloudless 
blue sky, the intensely brilliant light, and the gigantic 
baobabs with their rock-like stems remind us only too 
unmistakably that we are in Africa.” 
