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done wrong, and laid the guilt of the wars in which the 

 Makololo had engaged on the Boers, the Matebele, and 

 every other tribe except his own. When quite a youth, 

 Motibe's family had been attacked by a party of Boers : ho 

 hid himself in an ant-eater's hole, but was drawn out and 

 thrashed with a whip of hippopotamus-hide. When en- 

 joined to live in peace, he would reply, " Teach the Boers 

 to lay down their arms first." Yet Motibe, on other occa- 

 sions, seemed to feel the difference between those who are 

 Christians indeed and those who are so only in name. In 

 all our discussions we parted good friends. 



CHAPTEE XXVI. 



DR. LIVINGSTONE DISCOVERS THE FALLS OP VICTORIA. 



On the 3d of November we bade adieu to our friends at 

 Linyanti, accompanied by Sekeletu and about 200 followers. 

 We were all fed at his expense, and he took cattle for this 

 purpose from every station we came to. The principal 

 men of the Makololo, Lebeole, Ntlarie, Nkwatlele, &c. were 

 also of the party. We passed through the patch of the 

 tsetse, which exists between Linyanti and Sesheke, by night. 

 The majority of the company went on by daylight, m 

 order to prepare our beds. Sekeletu and I, with about 

 forty young men, waited outside the tsetse till dark. We 

 then went forward, and about ten o'clock it became so 

 pitchy dark that both horses and men were completely 

 blinded. The lightning spread over the sky, forming eight 

 or ten branches at a time, in shape exactly like those of a 

 tree. This, with great volumes of sheet-lightning, enabled 

 us at times to see the whole country. The intervals between 

 the flashes were so densely dark as to convey the idea of 

 stone-blindness. The horses trembled, cried out, and turned 

 round, as if searching for each other, and every new flash 



