yb DEPARTURE PROM LINYANTI. 



Chobe without our knowledge, but here he drops among 

 us like a bird." 



Next day we returned in canoes across the flooded lands, 

 and found that, in our absence, the men had allowed the 

 cattle to wander into a very small patch of wood to the 

 west containing the tsetse; this carelessness cost me ten 

 fine large oxen. After remaining a few days, some of the 

 head-men of the Makololo came down from Linyanti, with 

 a large party of Barotse, to take us across the river. This 

 they did in fine style, swimming and diving among the 

 oxen more like alligators than men, and taking the wagons 

 to pieces and carrying them across on a number of canoes 

 lashed together. We were now among friends; so, going 

 about thirty miles to the north, in order to avoid the still 

 flooded lands on the north of the Chobe, we turned west- 

 ward toward Linyanti, (lat. 18° 17' 20" S., long. 23° 50' 9" 

 E.,) where we arrived on the 23d of May, 1853. This is 

 the capital town of the Makololo, and only a short distance 

 from our wagon-stand of 1851, (lat. 18° 20' S. ; long. 23° 

 50' E.) 



CHAPTEE IX. 



DR. LIVINGSTONE LABORS AS A MISSIONARY AMONG THE 

 MAKOLOLO. 



The whole population of Linyanti, numbering between 

 six and seven thousand souls, turned out en masse to see 

 the wagons in motion. They had never witnessed the phe- 

 nomenon before, we having on the former occasion departed 

 by night. Sekeletu, now in power, received us in what is 

 considered royal style, setting before us a great number 

 of pots of boyaloa, the beer of the country. These were 

 brought by women, and each bearer takes a good draught 

 of the beer when she sets it down, by way of " tasting/' 

 to show that there is no poison. 



