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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
CHAPTER XII. 
The Baeotse Country. 
The Barotse or Baroze Country is of special interest as 
having been included in the sphere of the British South 
Africa Company. Major Serpa Pinto spent some 
time there, and indeed had great difficulty in getting 
away. 
On the 25th of August I rose, feeling very ill and 
burning with fever. I was in the Upper Zambesi, close 
to the 15th parallel South, in the city of Lialui, the new 
Capital, founded by King Lobossi, of the Kingdom of 
the Baroze, Lui or Ungenge, for by all three names is 
that vast empire of South tropical Africa known to the 
world. We learn from the descriptions of David Living¬ 
stone that a warrior coming out of the South at the head 
of a powerful army, by name Chibitano, a Basuto by 
origin, crossed the Zambesi close to its confluence with 
the Cuando, and invaded the territories of the Upper 
Zambesi, subjecting to his sway the whole of the tribes 
who inhabited the vast tracts of country thus conquered. 
Chibitano, the most remarkable captain who has ever 
existed in Central Africa, started from the banks of the 
Gariep with the nucleus of an army formed of Basutos 
and Betjuanas, to which he went on adding the young 
manhood of the peoples he vanquished, and as he drew 
nearer to the North, he organized his new phalanxes till 
they became as terribly successful in the conquest of the 
Upper Zambesi as in the defence of the subjected coun¬ 
tries. On this army, formed of different elements, and 
of peoples of many races and origins, their commander 
bestowed the name of Cololos, hence the designation of 
Macololos, which became so well known throughout 
