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phenomena in the world. Staying there three days, after 

 the amusement of a lion hunt and several adventures, 

 they returned on September 24 to Panda Jila Tenka. 

 With somewhat failing health our author once again turned 

 his face to the sources of the Zambesi ; but when he got to 

 Sesheke the king told him he had been too long in coming, 

 that it was too late to go 

 now, and he had not kept 

 the guides waiting for him. 

 The king dedared it would 

 take him over four months 

 to reach the Zambesi sources 

 in the kingdom of the Iwan- 

 yoe. An elephant hunt on 

 a grand scale took plr.ce 

 about this time, but ended 

 in a panic, during which the 

 whole herd of elephants 

 escaped ; but a lion hunt was 

 more successful. Dr. Holub 

 says he heard that one of the 

 days during another great 

 elephant hunt a herd of over 

 a hundred elephants had 

 been seen, but although at 

 least 10,000 bullets had been 

 fired off, only four elephants 

 had been killed. At last 

 leave was given to the author 

 to accompany some of the 

 queens who had come from 

 the Barotse country, and on 

 December i he was off 

 Three royal canoes were 

 placed at his disposal, but 

 he had to ask for a fourth, 

 and even then his servants 

 had to proceed on foot along 

 the banks. The Barotse 

 rapids were safely ascended, 

 but at the rapids known as 

 iSIutshila Aumsinga one of 

 the canoes, that which carried 

 all his provisions, gunpowder, 

 medicines, and natural his- 

 tory collections, was capsized, 

 andthisendedallhis schemes 

 of penetrating far into the 

 country ; and thus the pre- 

 parations of seven previous 

 years proved fruitless. The 

 severe wetting and the ex- 

 treme disappointment, 

 brought on a dangerous at- 

 tack of fever, and, growing 

 worse and worse, there was 

 finally no alternative but to 

 return, .-^fter a long delay 

 at Sesheke in hopes of re- 

 covery he was compelled, 

 after some weeks, to revisit 

 Panda Ma Tenka. An inte- 

 resting account is given of 

 the manners and customs of 

 the Marutze tribes. They 

 seem to believe in a Supreme 

 Being in good and evil 

 spirits, in the continued ex- 

 istence after death ; they are 



fair agriculturists and good cattle breeders, having a fertile 

 soil, a genial climate, and abundance of water; though the 

 tsetse fly is met with, game abounds ; Kaffir corn, maize, 

 beans, cotton, and tobacco are cultivated ; salt is expensive ; 

 beer from corn is usually drunk at meals ; they have also 

 a cider-like drink and the honey beer. The people are 



cleanly in their persons and keep the'r food material in well- 

 washed wooden or earthenware bowls or in suitable baskets 

 or calabashes. Some of these are very tastefully decorated, 

 and in the accompanying figures { Fig. 4) one will be seen 

 with animal designs. The medical knowledge of the 

 Marutze would appear to be in advance of many of the 



Fig. 5. — Rock caves and inscrip'i- 



I South African tribes ; ihey know the properties of a 

 number of medicinal or poisonous plants; the treatment 

 of fever, ccughs, and wounds. Bleedmg was a common 

 operation among them, and was employed in cares of 

 neuralgia or to reduce inflammation. 



After many troubles and trials Panda Ma Tenka was 



