402 TDIBO'S RETURN LECHOLETEBE LOGIC. 



CHAPTER XXXn. 



Timbo's Return from the Lake ; his Logic ; he takes the Law in his 

 o\vn Hands. — Calf of Author's Leg goes astray. — A troop of Ele- 

 phants. — Author is charged by one of them, and narrowly escapes 

 Death. — He shoots a white Rhinoceros. — He disables a black Rhi- 

 noceros. — He is charged and desperately bruised and wounded by 

 the latter. — He saves the Life of his Attendant, Kamapyu. — Author 

 again charged by the Rhinoceros, and escapes Destruction only by 

 the opportune Death of his Antagonist. — Reflections. — He starts for 

 the Ngami. 



After about a week's absence Timbo returned. I learn- 

 ed from him that, previously to his amval at the Ngami, 

 Lecholetebe, the chief, had not, contrary to my expectations, 

 been made aware of my approach, and the sudden appear- 

 ance of strangers, therefore, created no small degree of sur- 

 prise and consternation both to him and his people, who fled 

 precipitately with their flocks. 



Many years before, when my friends, the Damaras, extend- 

 ed their migration to the neighborhood of the lake in ques- 

 tion, the Bechuanas were in the habit of robbino; them of 

 their cattle. "How does it happen," said Lecholete'be to 

 Timbo, " that the Damaras are your servants ? They are a 

 mighty nation, rich in cattle, which I know well, because my 

 father fought many a bloody battle with them. We invari- 

 ably came ofi* victorious, though often at the cost of numbers 

 of our warriors, who were slain by the broad assegai of the Da- 

 maras. All is not right ! Is your master richer than they f 



To this query Timbo logically replied, "No, my master 

 no rich ; master very poor ; but master has something, and Da- 

 maras nothing ; therefore master more rich than Damaras." 



Timbo then explained the way in which that tribe had 



