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chief of the Bangwaketse, he took immediate possession of his 

 town and all his goods. 



Sebituane subsequently settled at the place called Litubaruba, 

 where Sechele now dwells, and his people suffered severely in one 

 of those unrecorded attacks by white men, in winch murder is 

 committed and materials laid up in the conscience for a future 

 judgment. 



A great variety of fortune followed him in the northern part of 

 the Bechuana country ; twice he lost all his cattle by the attacks 

 of the Matebele, but always kept his people together, and retook 

 more than he lost. He then crossed the Desert by nearly the 

 same path that we did. He had captured a guide ; and, as it 

 was necessary to travel by night in order to reach water, the 

 guide took advantage of this and gave him the slip. After 

 marching till morning, and going as they thought right, they 

 found themselves on the trail of the day before. Many of his 

 cattle burst away from him in the frenzy of thirst, and rushed 

 back to Serotli, then a large piece of water, and to Mashue and 

 Lopepe, the habitations of their original owners. He stocked 

 himself again among the Batletli, on Lake Kumadau, whose herds 

 were of the large-horned species of cattle.* Conquering all around 

 the lake, he heard of white men living at the west coast ; and 

 haunted by what seems to have been the dream of his whole life, 

 a desire to have intercourse with the white man, he passed away 

 to the south-west, into the parts opened up lately by Messrs. Galton 

 and Andersson. There, suffering intensely from tliirst, he and his 

 party came to a small well. He decided that the men, not the 

 cattle, should drink it, the former being of most value, as they 

 could fight for more, should these be lost. In the morning they 

 found the cattle had escaped to the Damaras. 



Returning to the north poorer than he started, he ascended the 

 Teoughe to the hill Sorila, and crossed over a swampy country 

 to the eastwards. Pursuing his course onwards to the low-lying 

 basin of the L,eeainbye, he saw that it presented no attraction to 



* We found the Batauana in possession of this breed when we discovered 

 Lake Ngami. One of these horns, brought to England by Major Vardon, 

 will hold no less than twenty-one imperial pints of water ; and a pair, brought 

 by Mr. Oswell, and now in the possession of Colonel Steele, measures from tip 

 to tip eight and a half feet. 



