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She felt suddenly appalled at the future, and was afraid she might show it. But the evening had still one little unexpected treat in store for her. Lord Elmsleigh had a big-game trophy in his room that he wanted to show Mr. Pym and their other guests something that he had shot in the Kafue valley.
Owing to the strength of the wind, and the cranky state of the canoes, it was late in the afternoon of the 11th before our party was ferried over the Kafue. After crossing, we were in the Bawe country.
The Kafue, sometimes called Kahowhe or Bashukulompo River, is upward of two hundred yards wide here, and full of hippopotami, the young of which may be seen perched on the necks of their dams. At this point we had reached about the same level as Linyanti.
The Makololo knew all the country eastward as far as the Kafue, from having lived in former times near the confluence of that river with the Zambesi, and they all advised this path in preference to that by the way of Zanzibar. The only difficulty that they assured me of was that in the falls of Victoria.
Semalembue said that he ought to see us over the river, so he accompanied us to a pass about a mile south of his village, and when we entered among the hills we found the ford of the Kafue. On parting with Semalembue I put on him a shirt, and he went away with it apparently much delighted. The ford was at least 250 yards broad, but rocky and shallow.
Thus, for instance, they assured me that if they go up the Simah in a canoe, they can enter the Chobe, and descend that river to the Leeambye; or they may go up the Kama and come down the Simah; and so in the case of the Kafue. It is reputed to be connected in this way with the Leeambye in the north, and to part with the Loangwa; and the Makololo went from the one into the other in canoes.
The principal hills on our right, as we look up stream, are from six to twelve miles away, and occasionally they send down spurs to the river, with brooks flowing through their narrow valleys. One of these plains, near the Kafue, is covered with the large stumps and trunks of a petrified forest.
Beautiful Valley Buffalo My young Men kill two Elephants The Hunt Mode of measuring Height of live Elephants Wild Animals smaller here than in the South, though their Food is more abundant The Elephant a dainty Feeder Semalembue His Presents Joy in prospect of living in Peace Trade His People's way of wearing their Hair Their Mode of Salutation Old Encampment Sebituane's former Residence Ford of Kafue Hippopotami Hills and Villages Geological Formation Prodigious Quantities of large Game Their Tameness Rains Less Sickness than in the Journey to Loanda Reason Charge from an Elephant Vast Amount of animal Life on the Zambesi Water of River discolored An Island with Buffaloes and Men on it Native Devices for killing Game Tsetse now in Country Agricultural Industry An Albino murdered by his Mother "Guilty of Tlolo" Women who make their Mouths "like those of Ducks" First Symptom of the Slave-trade on this side Selole's Hostility An armed Party hoaxed An Italian Marauder slain Elephant's Tenacity of Life A Word to young Sportsmen Mr.
At noon on the 24th October, we found Sequasha in a village below the Kafue, with the main body of his people. He said that 210 elephants had been killed during his trip; many of his men being excellent hunters. The numbers of animals we saw renders this possible.
We crossed the rivulet Nakachinta, flowing westward into the Kafue, and then passed over ridges of rocks of the same mica schist which we found so abundant in Golungo Alto; here they were surmounted by reddish porphyry and finely laminated felspathic grit with trap.
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