Many Are Between 2000 And 3000 Feet High, With The Sky Line
Fringed With Trees; The Rocks Show Just Sufficiently
For one to
observe their stratification, or their granitic form, and though not
covered with dense masses of climbing plants,
Like those in moister
eastern climates, there is still the idea conveyed that most of the
steep sides are fertile, and none give the impression of that
barrenness which, in northern mountains, suggests the idea that the
bones of the world are sticking through its skin.
The villagers reported that we were on the footsteps of a Portuguese
half-caste, who, at Senga, lately tried to purchase ivory, but, in
consequence of his having murdered a chief near Zumbo and twenty of
his men, the people declined to trade with him. He threatened to
take the ivory by force, if they would not sell it; but that same
night the ivory and the women were spirited out of the village, and
only a large body of armed men remained. The trader, fearing that he
might come off second best if it came to blows, immediately departed.
Chikwanitsela, or Sekuanangila, is the paramount chief of some fifty
miles of the northern bank of the Zambesi in this locality. He lives
on the opposite, or southern side, and there his territory is still
more extensive. We sent him a present from Senga, and were informed
by a messenger next morning that he had a cough and could not come
over to see us.
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