The River Presents The Same Appearance Of Low Banks Without Trees
As We Have Remarked It Had After We Came To 16d 16',
Until We Arrive At Libonta (14d 59' S. Lat.).
Twenty miles beyond that,
we find forest down to the water's edge, and tsetse.
Here I might have turned back,
As no locality can be inhabited by Europeans
where that scourge exists; but hearing that we were not far
from the confluence of the River of Londa or Lunda, named Leeba or Loiba,
and the chiefs of that country being reported to be friendly to strangers,
and therefore likely to be of use to me on my return from the west coast,
I still pushed on to latitude 14d 11' 3" S. There the Leeambye
assumes the name Kabompo, and seems to be coming from the east.
It is a fine large river, about three hundred yards wide,
and the Leeba two hundred and fifty. The Loeti, a branch of which
is called Langebongo, comes from W.N.W., through a level grassy plain
named Mango; it is about one hundred yards wide, and enters the Leeambye
from the west; the waters of the Loeti are of a light color,
and those of the Leeba of a dark mossy hue. After the Loeti
joins the Leeambye the different colored waters flow side by side
for some distance unmixed.
Before reaching the Loeti we came to a number of people
from the Lobale region, hunting hippopotami. They fled precipitately
as soon as they saw the Makololo, leaving their canoes
and all their utensils and clothing.
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