24d 6' 20" E.), and resolved to explore the river for a ford.

The great quantity of water we had passed through was part of the annual inundation of the Chobe; and this, which appeared a large, deep river, filled in many parts with reeds, and having hippopotami in it, is only one of the branches by which it sends its superabundant water to the southeast.

From the hill N'gwa a ridge of higher land runs to the northeast, and bounds its course in that direction.

We, being ignorant of this, were in the valley, and the only gap in the whole country destitute of tsetse.

In company with the Bushmen I explored all the banks of the Sanshureh to the west till we came into tsetse on that side.