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changed by medicine, to drink and have it changed at once, for it is 

 always very proud and very uneasy, and continually angry with some 

 one.' He then rose and went away." 



A third tribe visited at this time was the Bakaa, and 

 here, too, Livingstone was able to put in force his wonder- 

 ful powers of management. Shortly before, the Bakaa had 

 murdered a trader and his company. When Livingstone 

 appeared their consciences smote them, and, with the 

 exception of the chief and two attendants, the whole of 

 the people fled from his presence. Nothing could allay 

 their terror, till, a dish of porridge having been prepared, 

 they saw Livingstone partake of it along with themselves 

 without distrust. When they saw him lie down and fall 

 asleep they were quite at their ease. Thereafter he began 

 to speak to them : — 



" I had more than ordinary pleasure in telling these murderers of 

 the precious blood which cleanseth from all sin. I bless God that He 

 has conferred on one so worthless the distinguished privilege and 

 honour of being the first messenger of mercy that ever trod these 

 regions. Its being also the first occasion on which I had ventured to 

 address a number of Bechuanas in their own tongue without reading 

 it, renders it to myself one of peculiar interest. 1 felt more freedom 

 than I had anticipated, but I have an immense amount of labour still 

 before me, ere I can call myself a master of Sichuana. This journey 

 discloses to me that when I have acquired the Batlapi, there is an- 

 other and perhaps more arduous task to be accomplished in the other 

 dialects, but by the Divine assistance I hope I shall be enabled to 

 conquer. When I left the Bakaa, the chief sent his son with a 

 number of his people to see me safe part of the way to the 

 Makalaka." 



On his way home, in passing through Bubi's country, 

 he was visited by sixteen of the people of Sebehwe, a 

 chief who had successfully withstood Mosilikatse, but 

 whose cowardly neighbours, under the influence of jealousy, 

 had banded together to deprive him of what they had 

 not had the courage to defend. Consequently he had 

 been driven into the sandy desert, and his object in 

 sending to Livingstone was to solicit his advice and pro- 

 tection, as he wished to come out, in order that his 



