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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
“ Autile intate : ” (We understand you, friend), proceeded 
to take leave of me, with the further remark, “ Camaya 
koshi ” (We go, sir). 
Next morning, in an early walk up the valley, I found 
a surprising variety of traces of animals ; there were 
tracks of buffaloes, koodoos, waterbocks, duykerbocks, 
orbeki gazelles, jackals, leopards, and lions. I likewise 
observed a good many hyaena tracks, and kej3t con¬ 
tinually hearing baboons barking on the hills, being- 
induced several times to send a stray shot among the 
bushes. Amongst the birds I noticed two kinds of 
francolins, the guinea-fowl, the scopus, three kinds of 
plovers, saddle-storks (Mycteria Senegcdensis, Shaw), 
several varieties of ducks, a kind of plectropterus, some 
spurred geese, a darter, and a kind of cormorant ( Pliala- 
crocorax ). 
To me the scenery that was most attractive was just 
above the rapids, three miles from our encampment, and 
about six miles from the mouth of the river. Here it 
was quite possible to trace the connexion of the Chobe 
with the Zambesi. Natural channels, full of calm 
flowing water, opened into the vast expanse of reeds, 
and the stream spread itself out over the wide marshy 
region. The rapids themselves rushed through a mul¬ 
titude of rocks, of which some were bare, some covered 
with sand, some overgrown with sedge, some clothed 
with trees and brushwood. In one place where the 
water had worn itself a way between two of the rocky 
islands, I noticed some well-constructed fish-weels very 
similar to those we use in Europe. Birds, especially 
swamp-birds, were very numerous, having taken up 
their quarters both on the rocks and on the shore. I 
was confirmed in my conviction that the river was very 
full of crocodiles ; and at the rapids (which, by the 
way, I named the Blockley rapids) I noticed some 
water-lizards. 
The following is a description of the Manansas, the 
people who live on the south of the Victoria Falls of the 
Zambesi. 
In many of their customs the Manansas differ from 
