The Section Is Necessarily Exaggerated
In Longitude, As It Was Traversed In Different Latitudes,
The Western Side Being In 8d-12d, The Eastern 15d-18d S.
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We can see from this hill five distinct ranges, of which
Bolengo is the most westerly, and Komanga is the most easterly.
The second is named Sekonkamena, and the third Funze.
Very many conical hills appear among them, and they are generally
covered with trees.
On their tops we have beautiful white quartz rocks,
and some have a capping of dolomite. On the west of the second range we have
great masses of kyanite or disthene, and on the flanks of the third and fourth
a great deal of specular iron ore which is magnetic, and containing
a very large percentage of the metal. The sides of these ranges
are generally very precipitous, and there are rivulets between
which are not perennial. Many of the hills have been raised by granite,
exactly like that of the Kalomo. Dikes of this granite may be seen
thrusting up immense masses of mica schist and quartz or sandstone schist,
and making the strata fold over them on each side, as clothes hung
upon a line. The uppermost stratum is always dolomite or bright white quartz.
Semalembue intended that we should go a little to the northeast,
and pass through the people called Babimpe, and we saw some of that people,
who invited us to come that way on account of its being smoother;
but, feeling anxious to get back to the Zambesi again,
we decided to cross the hills toward its confluence with the Kafue.
The distance, which in a straight line is but small, occupied three days.
The precipitous nature of the sides of this mass of hills
knocked up the oxen and forced us to slaughter two, one of which,
a very large one, and ornamented with upward of thirty pieces of its own skin
detached and hanging down, Sekeletu had wished us to take to the white people
as a specimen of his cattle.
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