Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1887. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. A Ride to the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi. N arriving at Shoshong, as I have said, the roads to the hunting grounds lie indifferent directions. Shoshong itself is much like other native towns; that is, a mass of huts shaped like bee-hives, inhabited by a mass of bipeds shaped like monkeys. From all native towns a peculiarly unpleasant odor arises, which is caused by the natives' excessively crude recognition of the established laws of sanitation. The chief of the Bamangwato is a man called Khama. He has a brother living who ought to be dead, and who is very like Khama in appearance. In March 1886 I was sent up from Mafeking to Shoshong on a mission to Khama; and the rumours of wars which were flying about compelled me to remain there till the end of May. At that time my colonel, Col. Carrington, came up fwith wagons and water Why one goes to see the Falls. carts, and every luxury of the season, to go on a short shooting trip along the road to the Zambesi. He was accompanied by Colonel Aitcheson and Mr. Dunne, and at Shoshong I was to join them. When a man lands in South Africa he will hear much said about the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi. Their beauty is always described by both white men and black as being beyond all expression. The farther north one goes the more one hears about them, until one catches the Zambesi fever in the same way as in Switzerland one catches the mountain fever. Every man up country will give you the most accurate description of the Falls, the road there, and everything connected with them. This is, of course, a great help--until one goes to the Falls and learns by bitter experience that the lessons he had got up so thoroughly are of as much use to him as a pocketbook would be to a porcupine. Only about fifty white men ha...
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