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possibly pass through the tribes. Some natives at last came down the
river to Tete and said, alluding to the sextant and artificial horizon,
that "the Son of God had come," and that he was "able to take the sun
down from the heavens and place it under his arm!" Major Sicard then
felt sure that this was the man mentioned in Lord Clarendon's dispatch.

On mentioning to the commandant that I had discovered a small seam of
coal, he stated that the Portuguese were already aware of nine such
seams, and that five of them were on the opposite bank of the river.
As soon as I had recovered from my fatigue I went to examine them. We
proceeded in a boat to the mouth of the Lofubu or Revubu, which is about
two miles below Tete, and on the opposite or northern bank. Ascending
this about four miles against a strong current of beautifully clear
water, we landed near a small cataract, and walked about two miles
through very fertile gardens to the seam, which we found to be in one of
the feeders of the Lofubu, called Muatize or Motize. The seam is in
the perpendicular bank, and dips into the rivulet, or in a northerly
direction. There is, first of all, a seam 10 inches in diameter, then
some shale, below which there is another seam, 58 inches of which are
seen, and, as the bottom touches the water of the Muatize, it may be
more. This part of the seam is about 30 yards long. There is then a
fault. About 100 yards higher up the stream black vesicular trap
is seen, penetrating in thin veins the clay shale of the country,
converting it into porcellanite, and partially crystallizing the coal
with which it came into contact. On the right bank of the Lofubu there
is another feeder entering that river near its confluence with the
Muatize, which is called the Morongozi, in which there is another and
still larger bed of coal exposed. Farther up the Lofubu there are other
seams in the rivulets Inyavu and Makare; also several spots in the
Maravi country have the coal cropping out. This has evidently been
brought to the surface by volcanic action at a later period than the
coal formation.

I also went up the Zambesi, and visited a hot spring called Nyamboronda,
situated in the bed of a small rivulet named Nyaondo, which shows that
igneous action is not yet extinct. We landed at a small rivulet called
Mokorozi, then went a mile or two to the eastward, where we found a hot
fountain at the bottom of a high hill. A little spring bubbles up on