rally covered with trees. On their tops we have
beautiful white quartz rocks, and some have a capping of dolomite.
On the west of the second range we have great masses of kyanite or
disthene, and on the flanks of the third and fourth a great deal
of specular iron ore which is magnetic, and containing a very large
percentage of the metal. The sides of these ranges are generally very
precipitous, and there are rivulets between which are not perennial.
Many of the hills have been raised by granite, exactly like that of the
Kalomo. Dikes of this granite may be seen thrusting up immense masses of
mica schist and quartz or sandstone schist, and making the strata fold
over them on each side, as clothes hung upon a line. The uppermost
stratum is always dolomite or bright white quartz. Semalembue intended
that we should go a little to the northeast, and pass through the people
called Babimpe, and we saw some of that people, who invited us to come
that way on account of its being smoother; but, feeling anxious to get
back to the Zambesi again, we decided to cross the hills toward its
confluence with the Kafue. The distance, which in a straight line is but
small, occupied three days. The precipitous nature of the sides of this
mass of hills knocked up the oxen and forced us to slaughter two, one of
which, a very large one, and ornamented with upward of thirty pieces of
its own skin detached and hanging down, Sekeletu had wished us to take
to the white people as a specimen of his cattle. We saw many elephants
among the hills, and my men ran off and killed three. When we came to
the top of the outer range of the hills we had a glorious view. At
a short distance below us we saw the Kafue, wending away over a
forest-clad plain to the confluence, and on the other side of the
Zambesi, beyond that, lay a long range of dark hills. A line of fleecy
clouds appeared lying along the course of that river at their base. The
plain below us, at the left of the Kafue, had more large game on it than
any where else I had seen in Africa. Hundreds of buffaloes and zebras
grazed on the open spaces, and there stood lordly elephants feeding
majestically, nothing moving apparently but the proboscis. I wished that
I had been able to take a photograph of a scene so seldom beheld, and
which is destined, as guns increase, to pass away from earth. When we
descended we found all the animals remarkably tame. The elephants stood
beneath the trees, fanning themselve