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From the confluence, where we now are, down to Mosioatunya, there are many long reaches, where a vessel equal to the Thames steamers plying between the bridges could run as freely as they do on the Thames. It is often, even here, as broad as that river at London Bridge, but, without accurate measurement of the depth, one could not say which contained most water.
Candumba, 15 miles E. of 9 42 46 . . . 1855, Jan. 2 Pungo Andongo, 300 yards N. of the Coanza. Kalai, 17 51 54 25 41 0 1855, Nov. 18 2 3 near the Mosioatunya Falls. Top of the hills Semalembue, water boils 204-1/2 Deg. = 4078 feet. Tete or Nyungwe station, 16 9 3 33 28 0 Mar. 2, 17 4 8 house of commandant. Hot Spring Makorozi, 15 59 35 . . . Mar. 13 about 10 m. up the river.
The Batoka believe that Sekote had a pot of medicine buried here, which, when opened, would cause an epidemic in the country. These tyrants acted much on the fears of their people. As this was the point from which we intended to strike off to the northeast, I resolved on the following day to visit the falls of Victoria, called by the natives Mosioatunya, or more anciently Shongwe.
The formation of the crack of Mosioatunya is perhaps too ancient for that; yet, although information of any remarkable event is often transmitted in the native names, and they even retain a tradition which looks like the story of Solomon and the harlots, there is not a name like Tom Earthquake or Sam Shake-the-ground in the whole country.
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