296 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



After some days spent on the banks of the lake, Livingstone 

 resolved upon a visit to Sebituane, chief of the Makololos, three 

 hundred miles north, there to begin again his missionary labors. 

 As Oswell and Murray were elephant hunters, they acre sepa- 

 rated from Livingstone and continued their sport in the sur- 

 rounding country, but not without first giving a quantity of new 

 dres ' goods to Mrs. Livingstone, for herself and three children, 

 who were greatly in need of clothes, their old ones being fairly 

 in tatters. 



Six months after his arrival at the Makololo country, Living- 

 stone met Mr. Oswell again, and together they traveled one 

 hundred and thirty miles northeast, to a place called Sesheke, 

 which was near the very centre of the continent. On hunting 

 through this country they fortunately discovered the Zambesi 

 river, one of the most considerable streams in Africa, being fron? 

 three hundred to six hundred yards broad at extreme low water, 

 and rising twenty feet perpendicularly at its flood. 



Livingstone met with difficulties in the Makololo country which 

 he had not anticipated : the people were hospitable, but had 

 recently engaged in the slave-trade, which seemed to render them 

 impervious to Christian teaching. Mrs, Livingstone and her 

 children were also suffering severely from fever, which resisted 

 all the remedies and became so serious that he decided to return 

 to Cape Town with them, and from there send them to England, 

 and then return to Makololo to prosecute his work alone. This 

 he accomplished, and was much encouraged to see his family 

 greatly improved in health when they took passage on the vessel 

 for home. 



STRANGE DISEASES AND PECULIARITIES OF ANIMALS. 



LIVINGSTONE procured several oxen and two guides to Cape 

 Town, with such necessaries as his journey required, and started 

 on his return to the Makololo country, nearly fifteen hundred 

 miles from the Cape. Being free from anxiety, he describes this 

 trip as a pleasant picnic, for all the people on his route were 

 friendly, hundreds of whom received medical and surgical atten- 

 tion from him ; for his fame as a physician seemed to precede 



