50 Notes on South African Htmting. 
The Great River. 
small boy who can talk the language,there is every 
reason to fear that he will be turned back by a 
savage tribe called the Mashukolumpi, who 
live some way north of the Zambesi. At the 
place which Mr. Westbeach has chosen for his 
new store, the Zambesi, Chobe, and Linyantijoin, 
and form a rapid stream some 800—1000 yards 
in width. In contradistinction to most of the 
rivers in Bechuanaland, these are permanently 
flowing rivers, of delightfully fresh water. The 
scenery here is beautiful. The deep blue 
waters of these three magnificent rivers rolling 
down between high wooded banks, chequered 
with islands of tree-fern, and palm, and the 
tropical sun pouring down his golden beams 
over all, combine in presenting to the eye 
one of the loveliest and most unique scenes it 
is possible to imagine. 
Large game is comparatively scarce about this 
particular district; but on the north side of the 
river it is all that the heart of destructive man 
with a rifle can desire. About the banks of the 
river are birds innumerable, from the brilliant 
lory and glittering kingfisher to the great white 
stork and soaring eagle. Pelicans I saw none 
