[The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone]@TWC D-Link book
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

CHAPTER VIII
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The men employed are not very willing to go, but when they taste the pleasure of plunder they will relish it more! The watershed begins to have a northern slope about Moamba's, lat.

10 deg.
10' S., but the streams are very tortuous, and the people have very confused ideas as to where they run.

The Lokhopa, for instance, was asserted by all the men at Moamba's to flow into Lokholu, and then into a river going to Liemba, but a young wife of Moamba, who seemed very intelligent, maintained that Lokhopa and Lokholu went to the Chambeze; I therefore put it down thus.

The streams which feed the Chambeze and the Liemba overlap each other, and it would require a more extensive survey than I can give to disentangle them.
North of Moamba, on the Merenge, the slope begins to Liemba.

The Lofu rises in Chibue's country, and with its tributaries we have long ridges of denudation, each some 500 or 600 feet high, and covered with green trees.


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