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The easterly flow was here represented by the Leeba or upper course of the "Leeambye," the "Diambege of Ladislaus Magyar, that great northern and north-western course of the Zambeze across which older geographers had thrown a dam of lofty mountains, where the Mosi-wa-tunya cataract was afterwards discovered.
This was a disappointment to us, for we expected a continuance of the abundance of game in the north which we found when we first came up to the confluence of the Leeba and Leeambye. The rapid flow of the Leeambye, which once seemed to me evidence of much elevation of the country from which it comes, I now found, by the boiling point of water, was fallacious.*
As the people on the banks of the Leeba were the last of Shinte's tribe over which Intemese had power, he was naturally anxious to remain as long as possible. He was not idle, but made a large wooden mortar and pestle for his wife during our journey.
Katema's Town, 5' S. of Lake 11 35 49 22 27 0 1854, Feb. 17 . 2 Dilolo, the source of the Lotembwa, one of the principal feeders of the Leeba. The ford is in latitude 11d 17'. Bango's Village, about 10' 10 22 53 20 58 0 1855, May 28 3 . W. of the Loembwe. Bottom of descent = 208 Deg. = 2097 feet. Bottom of east ascent = 205 Deg. = 3680 feet.
As he was afraid of their exhausting his supply of powder, he was compelled to act as sportsman for the party. Leaving Leeambye, he proceeded up the Leeba. Beautiful flowers and abundance of wild honey was found on its shores, and large numbers of young alligators were seen sunning themselves on the sandbanks with their parents.
The idea which had sprung up in their own minds of an establishment somewhere near the confluence of the Leeba and Leeambye, commended itself to my judgment at the time as a geographically suitable point for civilization and commerce.
When crossing at the confluence of the Leeba and Makondo, one of my men picked up a bit of a steel watch-chain of English manufacture, and we were informed that this was the spot where the Mambari cross in coming to Masiko. Their visits explain why Sekelenke kept his tusks so carefully.
Village of Quendende, 11 41 17 . . . Feb. 11 about 2' S.E. of the ford of the Lotembwa, and about 9' from the town of Katema. Banks of the Lovoa. 11 40 54 . . . 1855, June 20 2 . Lofuje River flows into 12 52 35 22 49 0 July 7 . 3 the Leeba; Nyamoana's village. Confluence of the Makondo 13 23 12 . . . July 13 and Leeba Rivers.
While this tedious process was going on, I was informed that it is called the Mona-Kalueje, or brother of Kalueje, as it flows into that river; that both the Kalueje and Livoa flow into the Leeba; and that the Chifumadze, swollen by the Lotembwa, is a feeder of that river also, below the point where we lately crossed it.
There we heard that a party of the Makololo, headed by Lerimo, had made a foray to the north and up the Leeba, in the very direction in which we were about to proceed.
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