. In remotest Barotseland; being an account of a journey of over 8,000 miles through the wildest and remotest parts of Lewanika's empire. a, e 24^ IN REMOTEST BAROTSELAND. 373 of the same opinion. Besides this, the countryis high and healthy, and with careful adminis-tration many of the natives who were drivenaway, but not actually carried off, by the slavetraders wiU return. I have dealt with the slavetrade in former chapters in my diary, when I met. Waiting for carriers on the Mumbazie River. the caravans coming in to buy slaves, and nowI have seen the result of their labour, and actuallyvis
. In remotest Barotseland; being an account of a journey of over 8,000 miles through the wildest and remotest parts of Lewanika's empire. a, e 24^ IN REMOTEST BAROTSELAND. 373 of the same opinion. Besides this, the countryis high and healthy, and with careful adminis-tration many of the natives who were drivenaway, but not actually carried off, by the slavetraders wiU return. I have dealt with the slavetrade in former chapters in my diary, when I met. Waiting for carriers on the Mumbazie River. the caravans coming in to buy slaves, and nowI have seen the result of their labour, and actuallyvisited the country, or a part of it, in which theyreap their unlawful harvest. We only remained at the source of the Kabompofor a day, and then in torrents of rain turned oursteps towards home, following the course of the 374 IN REMOTEST BAROTSELAND. Kabompo on either side. The Kabompo is oneof the most picturesque rivers which I have ex-plored, and within a few miles of its junctionwith the Zambesi there is no flooded country ;but the river is well defined, beautifully clear,with steep banks, and where not pillaged by slavetraders the country is thickly populated withnatives possessing some of the most extensivegardens which I have ever seen in in pursuit of a slave caravan poor Brickerwas nearly drowned in the Mumbazie river;the boat was small, and when he was sitting downso tight was the fit that when the silly native incha
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