Wiktionary
alt. A river in southern Africa, which has its source in Zambia and flows into the Indian Ocean. n. A river in southern Africa, which has its source in Zambia and flows into the Indian Ocean.
Usage examples of "zambesi".
In the region of the great lakes, throughout the vast district which feeds the market of Zanzibar, in Bornu and Fezzan, further south on the banks of the Nyassa and Zambesi, further west in the districts of the Upper Zaire, just traversed by the intrepid Stanley, everywhere there is the recurrence of the same scenes of ruin, slaughter, and devastation.
But the fairest and most unbiased of historians must confess that there is a large body of evidence to show that into the heads of some of the Dutch leaders, both in the northern republics and in the Cape, there had entered the conception of a single Dutch commonwealth, extending from Cape Town to the Zambesi, in which flag, speech, and law should all be Dutch.
Rovouma soon followed and at the end of November the doctor returned to the Zambesi, and reascended the Shire.
His toil told, at least temporarily, upon his years, but he had the grand satisfaction of knowing that he had traced the whole course of the Lualaba, and had ascertained, beyond reach of question, that as the Nile is the great artery of the north, and the Zambesi of the east, so Africa possesses in the west a third great river, which in a course of no less than 2900 miles, under the names of the Lualaba, Zaire, and Congo, unites the lake district with the Atlantic Ocean.
Strong, intelligent-looking Americans, quite different to the miserable creatures brought from the banks of the Zambesi and Lualaba, they at once attracted the observation of the Arab and half-breed dealers.
The Zambesi itself was discovered at the end of June, 1851, and the doctor returned to the Cape for the purpose of sending his family to England.
Victoria Falls, the intrepid explorer quitted the Zambesi, and took a north-easterly route.
Baines, he started again, with the intention of exploring the basin of the Zambesi, and arrived in due time at the coast of Mozambique.
New Guinea and on the Zambesi, and they only depressed him: so he stopped at Brackenhurst, and went for a walk instead in the fresh summer meadows.
The gist of the Labour proposal is an international control of Africa between the Zambesi and the Sahara.
Phoenicians and directed by the wise men of Solomon, they head for the mouth of the Zambesi river looking for valuable metals, and proceed on their colonization of these regions.
They come up the Limpopo, the Zambesi, and over to Chimanimani mountains in all their pride and arrogance.
After two years seven and a half months of hostilities the Dutch republics had acquiesced in their own destruction, and the whole of South Africa, from Cape Town to the Zambesi, had been added to the British Empire.