Sometimes The Head Of The Slain Is Taken And Buried
In An Ant-Hill, Till All The Flesh Is Gone; And The Lower Jaw Is Then
Worn As A Trophy By The Slayer; But This We Never Saw, And The
Foregoing Information Was Obtained Only Through An Interpreter.
We left the Zambesi at the mouth of the Zungwe or Mozama or Dela
rivulet, up which we proceeded, first in a westerly and then in a
north-westerly direction.
The Zungwe at this time had no water in
its sandy channel for the first eight or ten miles. Willows,
however, grow on the banks, and water soon began to appear in the
hollows; and a few miles further up it was a fine flowing stream
deliciously cold. As in many other streams from Chicova to near
Sinamane shale and coal crop out in the bank; and here the large
roots of stigmaria or its allied plants were found. We followed the
course of the Zungwe to the foot of the Batoka highlands, up whose
steep and rugged sides of red and white quartz we climbed till we
attained an altitude of upwards of 3000 feet. Here, on the cool and
bracing heights, the exhilaration of mind and body was delightful, as
we looked back at the hollow beneath covered with a hot sultry glare,
not unpleasant now that we were in the mild radiance above. We had a
noble view of the great valley in which the Zambesi flows. The
cultivated portions are so small in comparison to the rest of the
landscape that the valley appears nearly all forest, with a few
grassy glades.
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