Africa, Southern -- Description and travel

Matabele land and the Victoria Falls

Arrival at Gubuleweyo--Interview with the King--Start for the Zambesi--Hope Fountain--Inyati--Difficulty of obtaining bearers--The Zambesi abandoned--Hunting expedition on the Umvungu and Gwailo Rivers--Experiences of a half-caste--Birds’ nests--The indunas’ tree--Hunting--A l...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

2. CHAPTER II.

3. CHAPTER III.

4. CHAPTER IV.

Arrival at Gubuleweyo--Interview with the King--Start for the Zambesi--Hope Fountain--Inyati--Difficulty of obtaining bearers--The Zambesi abandoned--Hunting expedition on the U...

5. CHAPTER V.

6. CHAPTER VI.

7. CHAPTER VII.

8. CHAPTER VIII.

9. CHAPTER IX.

Fresh start for the Zambesi--The Ramaqueban again--A lion shot--Singular building--Wild fruit--First Kraal of the Makalakas--Stopped by the induna--Return to Tati--To Gubuleweyo...

10. CHAPTER X.

Third start for the Zambesi--Again stopped by natives--Fresh leave from the King--The journey resumed--Frank Oates’s companion obliged to leave him--He goes forward alone--Break...

11. CHAPTER XI.

12. CHAPTER XII.

Main features of the Falls--The return commenced--Frank Oates attacked by fever--Course of the illness; improvement and relapse--His death--Dr. Bradshaw takes his effects to Bam...

13. CHAPTER I.

On the 5th of March 1873, Frank Oates and his brother, W. E. Oates, sailed from Southampton for Natal on board the Union Company’s steamship “African.” It was the intention of t...

14. CHAPTER II.

Frank Oates left Bamangwato on the 7th of August, and the following day joined his brother, who had been waiting for him a little way out of the town. In the evening the Makalap...

15. CHAPTER III.

Returning now to follow Frank Oates’s journey to the King’s Town, Gubuleweyo, we find the greater portion of his route described at some length in his Journal. Leaving the Tati,...

16. CHAPTER IV.

Arrival at Gubuleweyo--Interview with the King--Start for the Zambesi--Hope Fountain--Inyati--Difficulty of obtaining bearers--The Zambesi abandoned--Hunting expedition on the U...

17. CHAPTER V.

Frank Oates remained at Gubuleweyo or in its immediate neighbourhood some time--from December 5th 1873 to January 26th 1874. This was considerably longer than he had originally...

18. CHAPTER VI.

Frank Oates’s plan on leaving Gubuleweyo was to return slowly, by way of Tati, to Bamangwato, there to prepare himself with a fresh outfit of goods and other necessaries for a r...

19. CHAPTER VII.

On reaching Tati, Frank Oates found that a hunting party was just about to start thence for the Semokwe, and being asked to join them, he arranged to do so before going on to Ba...

20. CHAPTER VIII.

By the 21st of May Frank Oates was again back at Tati from Bamangwato, this time completing the journey without further mishap. Little worthy of note occurred upon the road. The...

21. CHAPTER IX.

On first leaving the Tati, on June 9th, the old ground, as though he had been making for Gubuleweyo, was retraced as far as the Ramaqueban River, where, on June 10th, the travel...

22. CHAPTER X.

Third start for the Zambesi--Again stopped by natives--Fresh leave from the king--The journey resumed--Frank Oates’s companion obliged to leave him--He goes forward alone--Break...

23. CHAPTER XI.

The country first passed through on leaving Tati was now fresh and green, with abundance of water along the road. Their first evening the party halted at “Mopani Pan,” a small p...

24. CHAPTER XII.

Main features of the Falls--The return commenced--Frank Oates attacked by fever--Course of the illness; improvement and relapse--His death--Dr. Bradshaw takes his effects to Bam...

25. Part 1 of Table.

+----------------+------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | NAME OF SKULL. | C. | L.| B.|BI.| H.|HI.|BN.|BA.|AI.| +----------------+------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ |1300...

26. Part 2 of Table.

+----------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+ | NAME OF SKULL. |NH.|NW.|NI.|OW.|OH.|OI.| CA.| +----------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+ |1300--O.C. 5357}| | | | | | | |...

27. Part 1 of Table.

+----------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | NAME OF SKULL. | C. | L. | B. | BI. | H. | HI. | BN. | +----------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----...

28. Part 2 of Table.

+----------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+ | NAME OF SKULL. | BA. | AI. | NH. | NW. | NI. | OW. | OH. | OI. | CA. | +----------------------+...