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THE MUTU. 
Chap. XXXII. 
It ought to be remembered that the testimony of these gen¬ 
tlemen is all the more valuable, because they visited the river 
when the water was at its lowest, and the surface of the Zambesi 
was not, as it was now, on a level with and flowing into the 
Mutu, but 16 feet beneath its bed. The Mutu, at the point of 
departure, was only 10 or 12 yards broad, shallow, and filled 
with aquatic plants. Trees and reeds along the bank overhang 
it so much, that, though we had brought canoes and a boat 
from Tete, we were unable to enter the Mutu with them, and 
left them at Mazaro. During most of the year, this part of 
the Mutu is dry, and we were even now obliged to carry all 
our luggage by land for about fifteen miles. As Kilimane is 
called, in all the Portuguese documents, the capital of the rivers 
of Senna, it seemed strange to me that the capital should be 
built at a point where there was no dkect water conveyance to 
the magnificent river whose name it bore; and on inquuy, I 
was informed that the whole of the Mutu was large in days of 
yore, and admitted of the free passage of great launches from 
Kilimane all the year round; but that now this part of the Mutu 
had been filled up. 
I was seized by a severe tertian fever at Mazaro, but went 
along the right bank of the Mutu to the N.N.E. and E. for 
about 15 miles. We then found that it was made navigable by 
a river called the Pangazi, which comes into it from the north. 
Another river, flowing from the same direction, called the 
Luare, swells it still more; and, last of all, the Likuare, with 
the tide, make up the river of Kilimane. The Mutu at Ma¬ 
zaro is simply a connecting link, such as is so often seen in 
Africa, and neither its flow nor stoppage affects the river of 
Kilimane. The waters of the Pangazi were quite clear com¬ 
pared with those of the Zambesi.* 
* I owe the following information, of a much later date, also to the 
politeness of Captain Washington. H. M. sloop ‘‘Grecian” visited the 
coast in 1852-3, and the master remarks that “the entrance to the Luabo 
is in lat. 18“ 51' S., long. 36“ 12' E., and may be known by a range of hum¬ 
mocks on its eastern side, and very low land to the S.W. The entrance is 
narrow, and, as with all the rivers on this coast, is fronted by a bar, 
which renders the navigation, particularly for boats, very dangerous with 
the wind to the south of east or west. Our boats proceeded 20 miles 
up this river, 2 fathoms on the bar, then 2|—4—6—7 fathoms. It was 
