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National Geographic : 1964 Aug
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Confined here to a width of less than 200 feet, the rushing Zambezi has carved curi ously shaped galleries and caves, so that the steep banks resemble Swiss cheese. Spray and foam scatter from boulders as big as houses. Exploring at the high-water mark 60 feet above the river, pilot Antonio Cunha and I came upon a pile of human skulls, ribs, and pelvic bones-mute evidence of some forgotten tragedy. South of Tete, at Vila Gouveia, I teamed up with Antonio Peixe, a young army offi cer, and John Vail, an English geologist. We set out on a search for Nhacangara, a little known mountain fortress, one of many an cient ruins that lie scattered along the South ern Rhodesia border. A day's march with six porters took us through trackless rain forest, bamboo thick ets, and into mountainous country. We crossed a swift river with water up to our chests and climbed rocks until after nightfall; then we reached the citadel at 4,500 feet. The moon threw eerie shadows among the curving fieldstone walls and the narrow passages threading the mountaintop. Vertical 227
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