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GEOLOGICAL FOEMATION. 
Chap. XXYIII. 
We can see from this hill five distinct ranges, of which Bolengo 
is the most westerly, and Komanga is the most easterly. The 
second is named Sekonkamena, and the thnd Funze. Yery many 
conical hills appear among them, and they are generally covered 
with trees. On their tops we have beautiful white quartz rocks, 
and some have a capping of dolomite. On the west of the 
second range we have great masses of kyanite or disthene, and 
on the flanks of the third and fourth a great deal of specular 
iron-ore which is magnetic, and rounded pieces of black iron- 
ore, also strongly magnetic, and containing a very large per¬ 
centage of the metal. The sides of these ranges are generally 
very precipitous, and there are rivulets between, which are 
not perennial. Many of the hills have been raised by granite, 
exactly like that of the Kalomo. Dykes of tliis granite, may 
be seen thrusting up immense masses of mica schist and quartz 
or sandstone schist, and making the strata fold over them on 
each side, as clothes hung upon a line. The uppermost stratum 
is always dolomite, or bright wliite quartz. Semalembue intended 
that we should go a little to the north-east, and pass through the 
people called Babimpe, and we saw some of that people, who 
invited us to come that way on account of its being smoother; but 
feelmg anxious to get back to the Zambesi again, we decided to 
cross the hills towards its confluence with the Kafue, The distance, 
which in a straight line is but small, occupied three days. The 
precipitous natme of the sides of this mass of lulls, knocked up 
the oxen and forced us to slaughter two, one of which, a very large 
one and ornamented with upwards of thu1;y pieces of its own 
sldn detached and hanging doTO, Sekeletu had wished us to take 
to the white people as a specimen of his cattle. We saw many 
elephants among the lulls, and my men ran off and lolled toee. 
When we came to the top of the outer range of the lulls, we had a 
glorious view. At a short distance below us we saw the Kafue, 
wending away over a forest-clad plahi to the confluence, and on 
the other side of the Zambesi beyond that, lay a long range of dark 
hills. A line of fleecy clouds appeared lying along the course of 
that river at their base. The plain below us, at the left of the 
Kafue, had more large game on it than anywhere else I had seen 
in Africa. Hundreds of buffaloes and zebras grazed on the open 
spaces, and there stood lordly elephants feeding majestically. 
