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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
CHAPTER IX. 
Through Zambesi a. 
The name Zambesia is by no means a new one. It 
will be found on maps a century old designating the 
region on both sides of the Middle and Lower Zambesi. 
It has been revived quite recently in connection with 
British enterprise in South Africa, and British Zambesia 
may be said to include the whole of Matabele-land and 
Mashona-land on the one side, and the country up to 
Lake Nyassa and Lake Tanganyika on the other. Of 
course this region is intimately associated with the name 
of Livingstone, though, as has been already shown, it has 
been explored by many Englishmen since his time. 
One of the most adventurous and most unfortunate of 
these Englishmen was the late Walter Montagu Kerr, a 
son of Lord Charles Kerr, and a scion of one of the 
oldest and noblest houses in Scotland. Mr. Kerr was 
possessed of all the true explorer’s reckless enthusiasm, 
and the journey which he made from the Cape direct north 
to the Zambesi and across to Lake Nyassa, generally ac¬ 
companied by only a few natives, with no force, and with 
but a scanty supply of goods, was remarkable among many 
remarkable African journeys. Mr. Kerr had determined 
to accomplish something even more adventurous in a 
region far more dangerous and far more unknown. In 
1888 he landed at Mombasa with the intention of pro¬ 
ceeding by Uganda to the Upper Nile (where Emin 
Pasha was at the time), and thence if possible to Lake 
Chad, and so across the broadest part of the Continent. 
But, alas ! he was struck down by illness when only a few 
miles from the coast. He was compelled to proceed to 
Cairo, and thence he was carried to the South of France, 
