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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
drawing close down upon Elephant Island. Was slie 
making for the bay ? No, the breeze soon strikes the 
white expanded wings ; they fill, and she scudded along, 
borne by the western winds, until she faded into the 
distant veiling mists and utterly disappeared. 
Ah ! afar oil', on Nyassa’s waters, I had seen such sights 
before, awakening all the bitter grief of falsest hopes; 
for the vessel proved to be a slave dhow, of which not 
a few sometimes hove in sight and disappeared. 
Monkeys, a numerous family, were my only com- 
THE MOZI-OA-TUNIA, A CATARACT ON THE UPPER ZAMBESI. 
panions during these long watches in the “ look-out.” 
Nimbly they climbed the trees, chattering ceaselessly 
amongst the leafy branches, and sometimes peeping 
inquisitively over the tilted slabs of rock to have a 
glance at the pale intruder. Great fish-eagles, appearing 
first like minute specks in the distance, would draw 
nearer and nearer, piping the wild sounds of their 
strangely weird cries, which found a sad echo amidst 
the lifeless rocks. With a swoop they would swiftly 
fly past the “ look-out,” until their still and outstretched 
