The State Of Religion And Education Is, I Am Sorry To Say, As Low As
That Of Commerce; But The European Portuguese Value Education Highly,
And Send Their Children To Goa And Elsewhere For Instruction
In The Higher Branches.
There is not a single bookseller's shop,
however, in either eastern or western Africa.
Even Loanda,
with its 12,000 or 14,000 souls, can not boast of one store
for the sale of food for the mind.
On the 2d the Zambesi suddenly rose several feet in height.
Three such floods are expected annually, but this year there were four.
This last was accompanied by discoloration, and must have been caused
by another great fall of rain east of the ridge. We had observed
a flood of discolored water when we reached the river at the Kafue;
it then fell two feet, and from subsequent rains again rose so high
that we were obliged to leave it when opposite the hill Pinkwe.
About the 10th of March the river rose several feet with
comparatively clear water, and it continued to rise until the 21st,
with but very slight discoloration. This gradual rise was the greatest,
and was probably caused by the water of inundation in the interior.
The sudden rise which happened on the 2d, being deeply discolored,
showed again the effect of rains at a comparatively short distance.
The fact of the river rising three or four times annually,
and the one flood of inundation being mixed with the others, may account for
the Portuguese not recognizing the phenomenon of the periodical inundation,
so well known in the central country.
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