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they may meet, and delight in breaking the legs of the 
Masarwas. 
Dr. Holub gives a very vivid description of the lower 
Chobe river, one of the few southern affluents of the 
Zambesi. 
Towards its mouth the valley of the Chobe varies 
from half a mile to three miles in breadth, and the 
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valley of the Zambesi under the hills above the Victoria 
Falls has very much the same character. Except in 
places where the rocky spurs abut directly on to the 
stream, the shores of both rivers are sandy, corresponding 
with those of the Zooga and most of the feeders of the 
highland basin of central South Africa ; the rocks which 
1 have described above the confluence of the stream 
being chiefly the declivities of a sandy plateau. Down 
the Chobe, and throughout the district in that direction. 
