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to sell men, but they sat there day after day, and showed us 
fresh cloths so beautiful that you would have sold your grand- 
mother for them. Then I somehow remembered there were 
men whom we had taken in our last raid. And I at length 
_ consented to part with them. But they were not many, and 
_ they wanted more. I said I had none; if I sold now it © 
_ must be my own people, and I would not do that. Then they 
., asked, “Don’t you want oxen?” What could I say—doesn’t a 
_ chiefalways want oxen? “ Well, as we came here, about five days 
_ off we passed through a country where the oxen were like. the 
_ grass for number. Lend us 400 or 500 of your warriors, and 
__ we will help with our guns, and let us attack that tribe. We will 
_ take the men and women, and you shall take the oxen.” 
_ What could I say? This appeared a very good plan to me, so 
_ we attacked. They got two great tens (200) of men and 
- women, and I got all those cattle,’ pointing to a plain on which 
__a herd of these diminutive little creatures were feeding. I for- 
a get whether Livingstone described them, but they were most 
: _ remarkablysmall things, like sturdy Durham oxen three feet high. 
_ There was not the least difficulty in carrying them about bodily ; 
__we put one into a waggon, hoping to bring it out, but it died. 
Pretty little gentle beasts, I wish I had taken more trouble to 
secure specimens. When the men milked them they held them 
_ by the hind leg as you would a goat. On the other hand, by 
the shores of Lake ’Ngami, a gigantic long-horned breed is 
_ found, stolen in a raid from the Ba-Wangketsi thirty years 
e before our visit. They were originally remarkable for their 
heads, but in four or five generations, from feeding on the 
_ silicious coated reeds and succulent grasses near the lake, had 
_ developed wonderfully in horns and height. Through Living- 
‘stone I obtained one 6 ft. 2 in. high, with horns measuring 
from tip to tip 8 ft. 7 in. and 14 ft. 2 in. round from one 
point to the other taking in the base of the skull. We had 
‘Cleared a way for the waggons through the bush, but had in 
‘Many places on our return to widen it for my ox. I hoped to 
have brought him home and to have presented him to the 
