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loss of blood from the wound inflicted by Livingstone's shots 

 had so weakened him that his grip soon relaxed, and he fell dead. 

 All this was the work of a few moments, and was evidently done 

 by the animal in his dying paroxysms of rage. Besides crunch- 

 ing the bone into splinters, he left eleven teeth wounds on the 

 upper part of Livingstone's arm. A wound from a lion's tooth 

 resembles a gun-shot wound ; it is generally followed by a great 

 deal of sloughing discharge, and pains are felt in the part period- 

 ically ever afterward. Livingstone had on a tartan jacket on this 

 occasion, and it evidently wiped off all the virus from the teeth 

 that pierced the flesh, for his two companions in this affray both 

 suffered from the peculiar pains, while he escaped with only 

 the inconvenience of a false joint in the limb. The man whose 

 shoulder was bitten showed his wound actually burst forth afresh 

 on the same month of the following year. 



ENTRAPPING LARGE GAME. 



THE settlement at Mabotsa soon became a flourishing place, 

 as the natives were anxious to be near Livingstone, whom they 

 regarded as a great chief and doctor able to cure their ills and 

 protect them against their enemies. One of the principal chiefs 

 of the Bakwains was named Sechele, an intelligent fellow, who 

 quickly perceived how superior the white man was to his people, 

 and he therefore sought to imitate Livingstone as nearly as pos- 

 sible. He was easily converted to Christianity, and became a 

 very active disciple whose labors for a time seemed to bear ex- 

 cellent fruit, for he converted a great many of his people and 

 had them attend a school, which Livingstone established, that 

 they might learn to read the Bible. Everything appeared pro- 

 pitious, until a dreadful drought set in ; vegetation parched up, 

 the streams ran dry, and even the birds and insects perished. 

 In vain the rain-maker practiced his magic, the clouds would roll 

 up and break in copious showers, sometimes within ten miles of 

 Mabotsa, but never a drop in the scorched fields of the Bakwains. 

 Patience at length ceased, and the people openly declared that 

 the drought was a curse sent upon them for becoming Christians, 

 a belief which was readily received because rain fell in abund- 



