The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

THE CHOBE BTTER. 2414,500 feet above sea- level. It flows at first towaras tlic south-east, and is soouswollen by the contributions of innumerable streamlets into the proportions of averitable river navigable for the greater part of its course, although obstructedhere and there by forests of tall reeds. In this region its basin is separated bya scarcely perceptible sill from that of the Zambese properly so called. ^Neverthelessit still maintains its independent course west of this low parting line, flowina southerly direction parallel with the main stream, and at lust emerging onthe great alluvial plain -which also receives the discharge of the Ku-Bango. TheFig. 69. Kass.u, Ku-Baxgo, axd Zajdjese.Scale 1 : 11,000,000.^-;^.-E:.:.:.':cFGKwa-Ndo even occasionally effects a junction with this river during exceptionalfloods, and then sweeps round to the cast, here expanding into the serpentineLake Chobe, which in many places takes the aspect of a river. When I^ivingstoncexplored it, the current had a mean depth of from 1-t to IG feet, but wouldnevertheless be inaccessible to a steamer of any size owing to its extremely sharpwindings.The junction of the Chobe with the Zambese is effected through an intricatelabyrinth of little channels and passages, in the midst of which stands an islandVOL. XIII. u