Letsha la Ngami
Letsha la Ngami ke letsha la endorheic kwa Botswana, kwa bokone jwa sekaka sa Kalahari. E tladiwa ka dipaka ke Noka ya Taughe, e leng metsi a a tswang mo thulaganyong ya Noka ya Okavango a a elelang go tswa kwa letlhakoreng la bophirima la Okavango Delta. Ke nngwe ya masalela a a kgaoganeng a Letsha la bogologolo la Makgadikgadi. Le fa letsha leno le ngotlegile thata go simolola ka 1890, le sa ntse le le lefelo le le botlhokwa la dinonyane le diphologolo tsa naga, segolobogolo mo dingwageng tsa morwalela.[1]
Maeto
[fetola | Fetola Motswedi]Letsha la Ngami le ne le na le baeng ba le bantsi ba ba tumileng mo lekgolong la bolesome le boferabongwe (le go tsena mo lekgolong la bomasome mabedi) la dingwaga. Ka 1849 David Livingstone o ne a e tlhalosa e le "letsha le le phatsimang, le le boleele jwa dikilometara di ka nna 130 le bophara jwa dikilometara di le 30". Livingstone gape o ne a dira dintlha di le mmalwa tsa setso ka batho ba ba nnang mo lefelong leo; o ne a lemoga gore ba na le kgang e e tshwanang le ya Tora ya Babele, ntle le gore ditlhogo tsa baagi di ne di "phatlogile ka ntlha ya go wa ga sekhafole" (Missionary Travels, kgaolo ya masome mabedi le borataro).
Sengwe sa ditshwantsho se itsege se dirilwe mo motheong wa seketšhe sa ga Rre Alfred Ryder (1825-1850), morwa wa motaki William Mills Rider (1795 - 1841), lekawana la Moesemane le le neng le etetse Letsha la Ngami dikgwedi di le mmalwa fela pele Livingstone a goroga koo. O ne a tlhokafetse fa a le mo tseleng a boa. Ryder o ne a dirile seketšhe sa letsha mme le fa se ne se tlogetswe se sa wediwa, Livingstone o ne a tlhotlheletsa Mme Ryder go se adima go dira setshwantsho sa buka ya gagwe.8 Kwa ntle ga go kopolola pono ya letsha ka kelotlhoko, motaki yo o thapilweng ke Murray o ne a kopiwa go tsenya setlhopha sa lelapa mo setshwantshong go se dira gore se kgone go tshwantshiwa.[2][3][4]
Charles John Andersson (yo o gatisitseng Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and Discoveries during Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of Southwestern Africa ka 1856) le Frederick Thomas Green le bone ba ne ba etela lefelo leo mo tshimologong ya dingwaga tsa bo 1850. Frederick Lugard o ne a etelelela pele letsholo la Maborithane go ya kwa letsheng ka 1896. Arnold Weinholt Hodson o ne a feta mo lefelong leno mo loetong lwa gagwe go tswa kwa Serowe go ya kwa Victoria Falls ka 1906.
Ngami Lacuna, e leng letsha la methane le le mo ngweding wa Saturn e leng Titan, le biditswe ka letsha leno.
Metswedi
[fetola | Fetola Motswedi]- ↑ "Okavango Flood Update - June 04". www.wilderness-safaris.com. 1 June 2004. Archived from the original on 6 June 2004.
- ↑ 8 Letter from Livingstone to J. J. Freeman, Kolobeng, 24 Aug 1850 quoted in Livingstone’s Missionary Correspondence 1961: 153, note 4. Also see Livigstone’s letter to John Murray, 4 Feb [1857], National Library of Scotland, David Livingstone Papers, Ms 10779/12a.
- ↑ Travels And Researches In South Africa By David Livingstone 1857: “Missionary travels and Researches in South Africa Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence across the Continent, Down the River Zambezi, to the Eastern Ocean”. By David Livingstone, L.L.D..D.C.L., Fellow of the faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Corresponding Member of the Geographical and Statistical Society of New York; Gold medallist and Corresponding Member of the Royal geographical Societies of London and Paris F.S.A., Etc, Etc
- ↑ Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Volume 24 - Page 727: "The missionary travelled 60 miles to administer relief, but he arrived after Mr Alfred Rider a young artist to at penetrated Africa to Sketch its scenery had perished. The volume contains a sketch of Ngami engraved from his drawing, which was unfinished at his death.
Tsa kwa ntle
[fetola | Fetola Motswedi]- Bala dikgang tsa beke le beke tsa selegae mo The Ngami Times.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ngami" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.