CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Reception at Linyanti — The Court Herald — Sekeletu obtains the Chieftainship 

 from his Sister — Sekeletu's Reason for not learning to read the Bible — 

 Public Religious Services in the Kotla — Unfavorable Associations of the 

 Place — Native Doctors — Proposals to teach the Makololo to read — Sekeletu's 

 Present — Reason for accepting it — Trading in Ivory — Accidental Fire — 

 Presents for Sekeletu. Page 93 



CHAPTER X. 



The Fever — Its Symptoms — Remedies of the Native Doctors — Hospitality of 

 Sekeletu and his People — They cultivate largely — The Makalaka or Subject 

 Tribes — Sebituane's Policy respecting them — Their Affection for him — Pro- 

 ducts of the Soil — Instrument of Culture — The Tribute — Distributed by the 

 Chief — A Warlike Demonstration — Lechulatebe's Provocations — The Ma- 

 kololo determine to punish him 104 



CHAPTER XI. 



Departure from Linyanti for Sesheke — Level Country — Ant-Hills — Wild Date- 

 Trees — Appearance of our Attendants on the March — The Chief's Guard — ■ 

 They attempt to ride on Oxback — Reception at the Villages — Presents of 

 Beer and Milk — Eating with the Hand — The Chief provides the Oxen for 

 Slaughter — Social Mode of Eating — Cleanliness of Makololo Huts — Their 

 Construction and Appearance — The Beds — Cross the Leeambye — Aspect of 

 this part of the Country — Hunting — An Eland 109 



CHAPTER XII. 



Procure Canoes and ascend the Leeambye — Beautiful Islands — Winter Land- 

 scape — Industry and Skill of the Banyeti — Rapids — Falls of Gonye — Naliele, 

 the Capital, built on an Artificial Mound — Santuru, a Great Hunter — The 

 Barotse — More Religious Feeling — Belief in a Future State and in the 

 Existence of Spiritual Beings — Hippopotamus-Hunters — No Healthy Loca- 

 tion — Determine to go to Loanda — Buffaloes, Elands, and Lions above 

 Libonta — Two Arabs from Zanzibar — Their Opinion of the Portuguese and 

 tbe English — Reach the Town of Ma-Sekeletu — Joy of the People at the 

 First Visit of their Chief — Return to Sesheke — Heathenism 116 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Preliminary Arrangements for the Journey — A Picho — Twenty-Seven Men 

 appointed to accompany me to the West — Eagerness of the Makololo for 

 Direct Trade with the Coast — Effects of Fever — A Makololo Question — Re- 

 flections — The Outfit for the Journey — 11th November, 1853, leave Linyanti 

 and embark on the Chobe — Dangerous Hippopotami — Banks of Chobe — 

 Trees — The Course of the River — The Island Mparia at the Confluence of 

 the Chobe and the Leeambye — Anecdote — Ascend the Leeambye — Public 

 Addresses at Sesheke — Attention of the People — Results — Proceed up the 

 River — The Fruit which yields Nux vomica — The Rapids — Hippopotami and 

 their Young 128 



