. Scottish geographical magazine. der of his companions and envy of myself. Thenatives on the river are Batonga, and are quite distinct from the Batoka. COLONEL HARDING IN REMOTEST BAROTSELAND. 489 The Bantua are anocker river-tribe along the Zambezi. From the junctionof the Kafue and the Zambezi Colonel Harding proceeded to visit theBalungwe Falls. These are rather rapids or cataracts, with a picturesquegraduating descent of two miles. The river, here, he says, some150 yards wide, is a white boiling mass, a roaring, dashing torrent,leaping over huge bouldered terraces, rushing madly between i
. Scottish geographical magazine. der of his companions and envy of myself. Thenatives on the river are Batonga, and are quite distinct from the Batoka. COLONEL HARDING IN REMOTEST BAROTSELAND. 489 The Bantua are anocker river-tribe along the Zambezi. From the junctionof the Kafue and the Zambezi Colonel Harding proceeded to visit theBalungwe Falls. These are rather rapids or cataracts, with a picturesquegraduating descent of two miles. The river, here, he says, some150 yards wide, is a white boiling mass, a roaring, dashing torrent,leaping over huge bouldered terraces, rushing madly between insur-mountable rocks, watering the foliferous plants that gratefully thrive-bythe river brink, forming a pleasing contrast to the parched and stuntedshrubs that struggle for an existence in the rocky subsoil up the leaving the Falls he arrived in two days in Mashukulumbwecountry. When he left Lialui in June, Colonel Harding had arranged to meethis brother at Nkala in order to visit the source of the Kafue, pass thence. Flo. 3.—Balungwe or Maliuininia Falls or Rapids, Kafue River. to that of the Kabompo, and then return to Lialui. It was now neces-sary, however, to proceed to Lialui, some 270 miles from Nkala,in orderto meet Mr. Coryndon, the Resident. Colonel Harding then decided tovisit the source of the Kabompo. He proceeded to Kasempa, 250 miles,and thence to the source of the Kabompo, some 200 miles, which is notunlike that of the Zambezi, surrounded with luxuriant vegetation in themidst of a huge thicket of dense trees. I consider, says ColonelHarding, u the watershed of the Zambezi and Congo rivers a districtthat will repay the greatest attention, and if mineral wealth is to befound in West Central Africa it will be located in these parts. It was in October that Colonel Harding left Lialui for the source of theKabompo, and it was the end of January before he returned, after cover-ing some 2000 miles. After remaining a while at Lialui, the only restsince he h
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