Chap. XXXII. 
THE QUILIMAXE AND ZAMBESI. 
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England I applied to Captain Washington, Hydrographer to the 
Admiralty, and he promptly furnished the document for publi¬ 
cation by the Koyal Geographical Society. 
The river between Mazaro and the sea must, therefore, be 
judged of from the testimony of one more competent to decide 
on its merits than a mere landsman like myself. 
On the Quilimane and Zambesi Rivers. From the Journal of 
the late Capt. Hyde Paekek, E.N., H.M. Brig ‘‘ Pantaloon.” 
The Liiaho is the main outlet of the Great Zambesi. In the 
rainy season — January and February principally—-the whole 
country is overflowed, and the water escapes by the different 
rivers as far up as Quilimane; hut in the dry season neither 
Quilimane nor Olinda communicates with it. The position of 
the river is rather incorrect in the Admiralty chart, being six 
miles too much to the southward and also considerably to the 
westward. Indeed, the coast from here up to Tongamiara seems 
too far to the westward. The entrance to the Luabo river is 
about two miles broad, and is easily distinguishable, when 
abreast of it, by a bluff (if I may so term it) of high straight 
trees, very close together, on the western side of the entrance. 
The bar may be said to be formed by two series of sandbanks,— 
that running from the eastern point runs diagonally across 
(opposite?) the entrance and nearly across it. Its western 
extremity is about two miles outside the west point. 
The bank running out from the west point projects to the 
southward three miles and a half, passing not one quarter of a 
mile from the eastern or cross bank. This narrow passage is 
the bar passage. It breaks completely across at low water, 
except under very extraordinary circumstances. At this time— 
low water—a great portion of the banks are uncovered; in some 
places they are seven or eight feet above water. 
On these banks there is a break at all times, but in fine 
weather, at high water, a boat may cross near the east point. 
There is very little water, and, in places, a nasty race and 
bubble, so that caution is requisite. The best directions for 
going in over the regular bar passage, according to my expe¬ 
rience, are as follows ;—Steer down well to the eastward of the 
bar passage, so as to avoid the outer part of the western shoals, 
