STOPPED BY MAKALAKAS. i8i 
do so. They spoke as my friends. If I persisted 
in going on, they would send to inform the king, who 
would despatch a party of Matabele to seize my 
waggons and take possession of my goods. I thought 
it best to take down the substance of what the induna 
said to me, in order to report it to the king. Um- 
ganulo, an induna, he stated, brought the following 
news from the king four days ago, and went back 
immediately : — All white men going to the Zambesi 
to be stopped, and their boys killed if they attempt 
going on with them ; waggons to be taken to the 
king if orders are disobeyed. The king too has 
stopped people going by all other roads to the 
Zambesi, and messengers also passed here the day 
before yesterday, going on to the Zambesi, to 
tell all white men who are already there not to re- 
turn till the rains fall, as they may bring sickness. 
The king has also said that no one may go across 
the veldt to him from here, but all must go by way 
of Tati. 
''Jtine 2ist. — Rather cloudy, but fine. Got up 
about 5 A.M. . . . Girls here very early with corn ; 
also some goats brought for sale, of which I bought 
two for a cotton blanket, also a little more corn, some 
leather bags, and a calabash. A tall lad, formerly a 
driver for Palmer, and a most free and easy indivi- 
dual, having relapsed into the national dress, offered 
his services to me as a hunter, if I should return this 
way. I ask John his character. John says he once 
took a knob-kerry to Mr. Palmer, when the latter 
wanted to thrash him. But he was not to blame for 
