longitude 35d 46'
E.): the point of departure is called Mazaro, or "mouth of the Mutu".
The people who live on the north are called Baroro, and their country
Bororo. The whole of the right bank is in subjection to the Landeens,
who, it was imagined, would levy a tribute upon us, for this they are
accustomed to do to passengers. I regret that we did not meet them, for,
though they are named Caffres, I am not sure whether they are of
the Zulu family or of the Mashona. I should have liked to form their
acquaintance, and to learn what they really think of white men. I
understood from Sekwebu, and from one of Changamera's people who lives
at Linyanti, and was present at the attack on Senna, that they consider
the whites as a conquered tribe.

The Zambesi at Mazaro is a magnificent river, more than half a mile
wide, and without islands. The opposite bank is covered with forests of
fine timber; but the delta which begins here is only an immense flat,
covered with high, coarse grass and reeds, with here and there a few
mango and cocoanut trees. This was the point which was reached by
the late lamented Captain Parker, who fell at the Sulina mouth of
the Danube. I had a strong desire to follow the Zambesi farther, and
ascertain where this enormous body of water found its way into the sea;
but on hearing from the Portuguese that he had ascended to this point,
and had been highly pleased with the capabilities of the river, I felt
sure that his valuable opinion must be in possession of the Admiralty.
On my arrival in England I applied to Captain Washington, Hydrographer
to the Admiralty, and he promptly furnished the document for publication
by the Royal Geographical Society.

The river between Mazaro and the sea must therefore be judged of from
the testimony of one more competent to decide on its merits than a mere
landsman like myself.

'On the Quilimane and Zambesi Rivers'. From the Journal of the late
Capt. HYDE PARKER, R.N., H. M. Brig "Pantaloon".

"The Luabo is the main outlet of the Great Zambesi. In the rainy
season--January and February principally--the whole country is
overflowed, and the water escapes by the different rivers as far up
as Quilimane; but in the dry season neither Quilimane nor Olinda
communicates with it. The position of the river is rather incorrect in
the Admiralty chart, being six miles too much to the southward, and
also considerably to the westward. Indeed, the coast from here up to
Tongamiar