. En plus Rhône ; être un compte d'un voyage de plus de 8 000 kilomètres à travers la partie la plus sauvage et la plus régions de l'empire de Lewanika. ay à Sesheke et Lialui Lewanikas thecapital, de royaume, j'espère takeyou avec moi par storm et de soleil,la faim, la soif, et ce qui semblait insuperabledifficulties, à la source de l'magnificentriver les eaux qui une si grande étendue de BritishCentral l'Afrique. Le territoire du Roi Lewanika, que j'hadreceived instructions pour explorer et faire rapport,,est connu sous le Rhône. C'est un pays ofconsiderable l'ampleur et le roi Lewanika, thereigning chef, pas de

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. In remotest Barotseland; being an account of a journey of over 8, 000 miles through the wildest and remotest parts of Lewanika's empire. ay at Sesheke and Lialui, thecapital of Lewanikas kingdom, I hope to takeyou with me through storm and sunshine, hunger, thirst, and what seemed insuperabledifficulties, to the source of the magnificentriver which waters so large a tract of BritishCentral Africa. The territory of King Lewanika, which I hadreceived instructions to explore and report upon, is known as Barotseland. It is a country ofconsiderable magnitude, and King Lewanika, thereigning chief, now known to so many people inEngland, has sought the protection of our Im-perial Government. The administration is bythem entrusted to the British South AfricaCompany. We arrived at Kazungula some days before thenecessary wagons, and spent the time of waitingin a visit to the Batoka country and the VictoriaFalls. The splendour of these Falls can only be fullyreahsed when the river is in full flood, but evenat the time of my visit their beauty is beyondall expression. I approached them from the east bank of IN REMOTEST BAROTSELAND. 5. the river, andreached their levelby descending arange of hills someseven hundred feethigh. On the summitof these hills, view-ing the plain below, one is instantlystruck by the thickvapour whichhangs like a pallover and aroundthe vicinity of theFalls. From thiscoign of vantagethe river is seento extend forseveral miles northand south, at timesentirely hidden bythe magnificenttrees which lineits banks, to burstforth again in someopen glade in thedim distance. Itis probably, in itsgrand and un- 6 IN REMOTEST BAROTSELAND. fettered beauty, the finest expanse of riverscenery to be found anywhere on earth. The native name of the Falls is Mosioatunya—boiling or troubled waters. They are formedby a crack in the hard basaltic rock on thewest bank of the Zambesi. Over the preci-pice thus formed they fall without let orhindrance a sheer depth of four hundred f

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