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Sechele was doing well. He had a Hanoverian mission- 

 ary, nine tribes were under him, and the schools were 

 numerously attended. 



Writing to Dr. Moffat, 10th August 1860, from Zam- 

 besi Falls, he says : — 



" With great sorrow we learned the death of our much-esteemed 

 friends, Mr. and Mrs. Helmore, two days ago. We were too late to 

 be of any service, for the younger missionaries had retired, probably 

 dispirited by the loss of their leader. It is evident that the fever 

 when untreated is as fatal now as it proved in the case of Commodore 

 Owen's officers in this river, or in the great Niger Expedition. And yet 

 what poor drivel was poured forth when I adopted energetic measures 

 for speedily removing any Europeans out of the Delta. We were not 

 then aware that the remedy which was first found efficacious in our 

 own little Thomas on Lake 'Ngami, in 1850, and that cured myself 

 and attendants during my solitary journeyings, was a certain cure for 

 the disease, without loss of strength in Europeans generally. This 

 we now know by ample experience to be the case. Warburg's drops, 

 which have a great reputation in India, here cause profuse perspiration 

 only, and the fever remains uncured. With our remedy, of which we 

 make no secret, a man utterly prostrated is roused to resume his march 

 next day. I have sent the prescription to John, as I doubt being able 

 to go so far south as Mosilikatse's." 



Again the grand Victoria Falls are reached, and 

 Charles Livingstone, who has seen Niagara, gives the 

 preference to Mosi-oa-tunya. By the route which they 

 took, they would have passed the Falls at twenty miles' 

 distance, but Dr. Livingstone could not resist the temp- 

 tation to show them to his companions. All his former 

 computations as to their size were found to be consider- 

 ably within the mark ; instead of a thousand yards broad 

 they were more than eighteen hundred, and whereas he 

 had said that the height of fall was about 100 feet, it 

 turned out to be 310. His habit of keeping within the 

 mark in all his statements of remarkable things was thus 

 exemplified. 



On coming among his old friends the Makololo, he 

 found them in low spirits owing to protracted drought, 

 and Sekeletu was ill of leprosy. He was in the hands of 



