. In remotest Barotseland; being an account of a journey of over 8,000 miles through the wildest and remotest parts of Lewanika's empire. he Paris Evangelical Missionat Lialui, welcoming me to Barotseland. Few men north of the Zambesi are betterknown or more appreciated than Mr. Coillard,and few indeed have worked so laboriously andlost so much as he in the effort to achieve thegood of West-Central British Africa. The boats, twenty in number, arrived, and,dispatching the horses and mules a few daysearlier overland, Harding and myself followedtheir course in the boats by the river-way—Moore had
. In remotest Barotseland; being an account of a journey of over 8,000 miles through the wildest and remotest parts of Lewanika's empire. he Paris Evangelical Missionat Lialui, welcoming me to Barotseland. Few men north of the Zambesi are betterknown or more appreciated than Mr. Coillard,and few indeed have worked so laboriously andlost so much as he in the effort to achieve thegood of West-Central British Africa. The boats, twenty in number, arrived, and,dispatching the horses and mules a few daysearlier overland, Harding and myself followedtheir course in the boats by the river-way—Moore had previously left for the Batokacountry, whilst Sergt. Macaulay, of the BritishSouth Africa Police, was dispatched in chargeof the mules. A very pretty sight on a bright Novembermorning was the departure of our armada fromKazungula. IN REMOTEST BAROTSELAND. 15 Simultaneously the boats leapt out into mid-stream, abreast—a formation, alas ! of veryshort duration, for they all too soon werestringing out, and by the time of our arrivalat the first cataracts, a distance of seven miles,they were straggling very leisurely along, headed. Simultaneously the boats leapt into mid-stream abreast. by myself in a Canadian canoe, watched overwith nervous caution by the induna in charge ofthe expedition. Harding came next, filling his inadequateshelter with his burly frame, and, with adjectives,enquiring why all the useless things were put 16 IN REMOTEST BAROTSELAND. in his boat. This burst of BiUingsgate wascaused by his indunas having carefully piledhis boat with every description of case notrequired, whilst Hardings blankets and car-tridge bag were reposing far off in anotherboat, exposed to the torrential rain which, soonafter our cheerful start, descended in a camped that night during violent thunderand lightning and rain about fifteen miles fromKazungula, and it was not till sundown of thenext day that we arrived at Sesheke, a distanceof 55 miles from Kazungula. I have menti
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