CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Personal Sketch — Highland Ancestors — Family Traditions — Grandfather re- 

 moves to the Lowlands — Parents — Early Labors and Efforts — Evening 

 School — Love of Reading — Religious Impressions — Medical Education — 

 Youthful Travels — Geology — Mental Discipline — Study in Glasgow — London 

 Missionary Society — Native Village — Medical Diploma — Theological Studies 

 — Departure for Africa — No Claim to Literary Accomplishments Page 9 



CHAPTER I. 



The Bakwdin Country — Study of the Language — Mab6tsa Station — A Lion 

 Encounter — Virus of the Teeth of Lions — Sechele — Baptism of Seehele — 

 Opposition of the Natives — Purchase Land at Chonu&ne — Relations with 

 the People — Their Intelligence — Prolonged Drought — Consequent Trials — 

 The Hunting Hopo 18 



CHAPTER II. 



The Boers — Their Treatment of the Natives — The Tale of the Cannon — The 

 Boers threaten Sechele — In violation of Treaty, they expel Missionaries — 

 They attack the Bakwains — Their Mode of Fighting — The Natives killed 

 and the School-Children carried into Slavery — Destruction of English Pro- 

 perty — Continued Hostility of the Boers — The Journey North — Prepara- 

 tions — Fellow- Travellers 28 



CHAPTER III. 



Departure from Kolobeng, 1st June, 1849 — Companions — Our Route — Serotli, 

 a Fountain in the Desert — The Hyena — The Chief Sekomi — Dangers — The 

 Wandering Guide — Cross Purposes — Slow Progress — Want of Water — The 

 Salt- Pan at Nchokotsa — The Mirage — Reach the River Zouga — The Quakers 

 of Africa. — Discovery of Lake Ngami, 1st August, 1849 — Its Extent — Small 

 Depth of Water — The Bamangwato and their Chief — Desire to visit Sebi- 

 tuane, the Chief of the Makololo — Refusal of Lechulatebe to furnish us with 

 Guides — The Banks of the Zouga 34 



CHAPTER IV. 



Leave Kolobeng again for the Country of Sehituane — Reach the Zouga — The 

 Tsetse — A Party of Englishmen — Death of Mr. Rider — Obtain Guides — ■ 

 Children fall sick with Fever— Relinquish the Attempt to reach Sebituane — 

 Return to Kolobeng — Make a Third Start thence — Reach Nchokotsa — Our 



