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Identifier: africa00johnrich (find matches)
Title: Africa
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel Africa -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Edward Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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erson and everything in the country. The drovesof cattle which you meet belong to the chief; and if onedies he is informed of it. The herd-boy who follows thecattle, and his master who lives in the adjoining town,belong alike to the chief. In full dress the soldierscarry large war-shields, and their heads and arms areso decorated with black ostrich feathers, as almost to hidethe human form, and enable them to represent furies orwar-demons rather than men. 3. Upper Course of the Zambesi. The Zambesi, which is by far the largest of all theAfrican rivers that flow to the Indian Ocean, has one ofits chief head-streams, if not its source, from the marshy 426 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. uplands of the little Lake Dilolo, situated between 11°and 12° south latitude, and 22° and 23° east longitudefrom Greenwich. It flows as the Leeambye through theBarotse valley southwards, and at last turning eastwardsto the Indian Ocean, in the neighbourhood of Linyanti,under 18° south latitude.
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A^ICTORIA FALLS : FROM THE WEST END. 4. The Victoria Falls. Soon after this change in its course, the Zambesiattains a lower level in rushing over the stupendousVictoria Falls, discovered by Livingstone in the month ofNovember 1855, and rivalled in grandeur by those ofNiagara alone. The native name of the falls isMosioatunya, since, viewing them with awe at a distanceand referring to the vapour and noise, they say Mosi oatunya — smoke does sound there. After twenty minutes sail from Kalai, Dr. Living- VICTORIA FALLS. 427 stone says, we came in sight for the first time of thecolumns of vapour, appropriately called smoke, rising ata distance of five or six miles, exactly as when large tractsof grass are burned in Africa. Five columns now arose,and bending in the direction of the wind, they seemedplaced against a low ridge covered with trees; the tops ofthe columns at this distance appeared to mingle with theclouds. They were white below, and higher up becamedark, so as to simulate smo

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