Journey in Thirstland: In Search of Water in Bechuanaland
1951; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 41; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/210964
ISSN1931-0846
Autores Tópico(s)Australian Indigenous Culture and History
ResumoJUST a hundred years ago David Livingstone returned from the first crossing of the Kalahari Desert and his discovery of Lake Ngami. It was my good fortune to make that journey in the opposite direction early in 1950, on a Colonial Development Corporation mission. As far as nature is concerned, there can have been little change in the century that has elapsed, but in methods of travel and subsistence the contrast is enormous. Livingstone's starting point was not far from the present settlement of Gaberones, now on the railway. Our party started from the Victoria Falls, then unknown, and in four large lorries went up the south bank of the Zambezi to a point nearly opposite Sesheke, where Livingstone stayed with his friend Chief Sebituane of the fierce Makololo tribe. Our track then led
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