x ^ CONTENTS. 



from his Sister. — Mpepe's Plot. — Slave-trading Mambari. — Their sudden Flight. 

 — Sekeletu narrowly escapes Assassination. — Execution of Mpepe. — The Courts 

 of Law. — Mode of trying Offenses. — Sekeletu's Reason for not learning to read 

 the Bible. — The Disposition made of the Wives of a deceased Chief. — Makololo 

 Women. — They work but little. — Employ Serfs. — Their Drink, Dress, and Orna- 

 ments. — 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. — Pres- 

 ents for Sekeletu. — Two Breeds of native Cattle. — Ornamenting the Cattle. — The 

 Women and the Looking-glass. — Mode of preparing the Skins of Oxen for Man- 

 tles and for Shields. — Throwing the Spear Page 196 



CHAPTER X. 



The Fever. — Its Symptoms. — Remedies of the native Doctors. — Hospitality of Se- 

 keletu and his People. — One of their Reasons for Polygamy. — They cultivate 

 largely. — The Makalaka or subject Tribes. — Sebituane's Policy respecting them. 

 — Their Affection for him. — Products of the Soil. — Instrument of Culture. — The 

 Tribute. — Distributed by the Chief. — A warlike Demonstration. — Lechulatebe's 

 Provocations. — The Makololo determine to punish him. — The Bechuanas. — 

 Meaning of the Term. — Three Divisions of the great Family of South Afri- 

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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 Ox-back. — Vast Herds of the new Antelopes, Leches, and Na- 

 kongs. — The native way of hunting them. — Reception at the Villages. — Presents 

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

 Slaughter. — Social Mode of Eating. — The Sugar-cane. — Sekeletu's novel Test 

 of Character. — Cleanliness of Makololo Huts. — Their Construction and Appear- 

 ance. — The Beds. — Cross the Leeambye. — Aspect of this part of the Country. — 

 The small Antelope Tianyane unknown in the South. — Hunting on foot. — An 

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CHAPTER XII. 



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

 scape. — Industry and Skill of the Banyeti. — Rapids. — Falls of Gonye. — Tradi- 

 tion. — Annual Inundations. — Fertility of the great Barotse Valley. — Execution 

 of two Conspirators. — The Slave-dealer's Stockade. — Naliele, the Capital, built 

 on an artificial Mound. — Santuru, a great Hunter. — The Barotse Method of com- 

 memorating any remarkable Event. — Better Treatment of Women. — More relig- 

 ious Feeling. — Belief in a future State, and in the Existence of spiritual Beings. 

 — Gardens. — Fish, Fruit, and Game. — Proceed to the Limits of the Barotse 

 Country. — Sekeletu provides Rowers and a Herald. — The River and Vicinity. — 

 Hippopotamus-hunters. — No healthy Location. — Determine to go to Loanda. — 

 Buffaloes, Elands, and Lions above Libonta. — Interview with the Mambari. — 

 Two Arabs from Zanzibar. — Their Opinion of the Portuguese and the English. — 

 Reach the Town of Ma-Sekeletu. — Joy of the People at the first Visit of their 

 Chief. — Return to Sesheke. — Heathenism 231 



