THE REGION SOUTH OF THE ZAMBESI. 
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chronometer, its spring broke, so that it was useless for 
the rest of the journey. Fortunately, I possessed a 
capital watch made by the celebrated Charles Frodsham 
of London, so that I was still able to take the longitudes 
of interesting places. 
If ever one of my travel-loving fellow-countrymen, 
into whose hands this book has fallen, should visit the 
celebrated Victoria Falls, he will easily be able to find 
the site of my encampment in June, 1870, after the 
exact directions I have given. That they may not fall 
into complete oblivion, I will add the names of the 
men who accompanied me from Wanki’s village, who 
all behaved well on the whole. They were Sililo, 
Gululo, Masupasila, Marulambo, Machume, Malumo,. 
Hamataba, and Tusan, a Bushman. 
I was not in a position to attempt a farther march 
in the north beyond the Zambesi. I had no presents 
for the chiefs, or articles to barter with the natives ; 
my shoes were completely worn out, my ammunition 
far from sufficient; and I should not have been able to 
persuade one of the men with me to cross the Zambesi 
and go into the distant “ unknown ” land. . 
The distance from Port D’Urban, my starting-point, 
to the Victoria Falls, is about seven hundred and sixty - 
six miles in a direct line; but making due allowance 
for necessary de'tours, ascents and descents, I think the 
number of miles traversed—exclusive, of course, of 
hunting expeditions—must have been some one thou¬ 
sand one hundred and twenty-four. 
We need not follow Mohr on his return journey ; he 
reached the coast in safety in the end of 1870. One 
passage is of special interest at the present time ; it 
was written with reference to Delagoa Bay, which at 
that date England claimed, but which in the end 
was given, on the decision of Marshal MacMalion as 
arbitrator, to Portugal :— 
It seems to me that in a question such as that 
between England and Portugal there are two kinds of 
rights, the legal and the moral, and the latter, though 
not the former, is all on the side of England, for what 
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