. In remotest Barotseland; being an account of a journey of over 8,000 miles through the wildest and remotest parts of Lewanika's empire. ong way up. Each gets in front of the other, all facingdifferent ways; on correcting themselves allthree will turn round, still not agreeing as totheir mode of procedure, and finally one or otherbecomes impatient and the box falls to theground, whilst they describe the origin, birth andnativity of each other quite impartially, and notin a manner flattering to their respective parents. On the other hand, you may give a boy a loadof sixty pounds of rice or flo
. In remotest Barotseland; being an account of a journey of over 8,000 miles through the wildest and remotest parts of Lewanika's empire. ong way up. Each gets in front of the other, all facingdifferent ways; on correcting themselves allthree will turn round, still not agreeing as totheir mode of procedure, and finally one or otherbecomes impatient and the box falls to theground, whilst they describe the origin, birth andnativity of each other quite impartially, and notin a manner flattering to their respective parents. On the other hand, you may give a boy a loadof sixty pounds of rice or flour to carry, and hewill reach his destination with the parcel intact—not a particle touched, though he were dying ofstarvation on his way. It was, as may readily be imagined, severalhours before all the boats were moved over. Theunfortunate Atonga had to do most of the work. IN REMOTEST BAROTSELAND. 63 as his party dwindled by degrees to about tenmen ; but in spite of these difficulties we wereready at last to proceed on our journey, andhad covered some few miles over very roughground when the sun indicated our usual Each gets infront of the other, all facing different ways. After passing the rapids we discovered that oneor two of the boats had been damaged by therocks, and were delayed by the necessity ofmending them. Once we were told that one ofthe hindermost boats had capsized, and goingfull speed astern arrived just in time to preventany more serious damage than having the boat 64 IN REMOTEST BAROTSELAND. half full of water. Our boy -we found perchedsquirrel-Uke in a tree^ shaking with terror like anaspen leaf. I poked him down with an oar, andafter a great deal of persuasion at last succeededin enticing him to resume his seat in the half-swamped boat. We found ourselves now within a few miles ofMasungundungus Kraal, which we reached Masungundungu is one of the principal chiefsin the Valovale district, and I was anxious tosee him, as he has con
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