. Nature . Ngami—the surplusage of the Okavango w-aters (thedrainage of eastern Angola) finds its way to theZambezi above the gorge of Kasungula. But thecomplete elucidation of this puzzle still awaits theresults of an extremely accurate survey in which themost careful attention will be given to questions oflevel. Did this once huge South-west African fresh-water sea, when at its fullest, discharge its waters Another noteworthy point in this exploration wasthe additional light it threw on the distribution ofthe Bushman-Hottentot peoples. It had been knownsince the journeys of Serpa Pinto that
. Nature . Ngami—the surplusage of the Okavango w-aters (thedrainage of eastern Angola) finds its way to theZambezi above the gorge of Kasungula. But thecomplete elucidation of this puzzle still awaits theresults of an extremely accurate survey in which themost careful attention will be given to questions oflevel. Did this once huge South-west African fresh-water sea, when at its fullest, discharge its waters Another noteworthy point in this exploration wasthe additional light it threw on the distribution ofthe Bushman-Hottentot peoples. It had been knownsince the journeys of Serpa Pinto that a quasi-Bushman race of red-skinned hunters extended north-wards from the Kalahari desert almost to the south-westernmost limits of the Congo basin ; but the con-clusions of Pinto were rather based on fancied physical. i distance of 3Q32Schutzgcki, seawards through the Limpopo; or did it pierce thehills at Kasungula (some distance above the VictoriaFalls) and thus united what is now the Upper Zam-bezi with the Gwai and the Kafue, and so create theZambezi as we know it to-day? Herr Seiners journeywas singularly interesting because of his carefulstudies of plant-distribution. In this region meet thedesert flora of the Kalahari and South-west Africa, NO. 2126, VOL. 84] resemblances than on language. Dr. Passarge—theGerman explorer who has made several journeysthrough the Okavango basin—added to our informa-tion, and now Seiner extends our knowledge of thesepeople, speaking click languages, to the KwandoRiver and almost to the Upper Zambezi. Thespecimens of Bushman speech collected by Seinerand Passarge enable these travellers to divide the July 28, 1910] NATURE 109 northern Bushmen into two groups—that of theKaukau of southern Damaraland and that of theNgami, which would include the click-using p
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