CHAPTER II. 

 1843—1850. 



The Bechuanas — The Bakwains — Sechele — His Conversion — His Difficulties — 

 The Government — Baptism of Sechele — Cross and Crown — Difficulties of the 

 Work — Belief in Rain-Making — Drought — Noble Conduct — The Hopo — 

 Kindness to Livingstone — Livingstone's Spirit — The Boers — Slavery — An- 

 tagonistic Principles — Boers Hate Livingstone — Sechele's Resistance — Living- 

 stone Accused — His Effects Destroyed — Going Northward — Desire to find the 

 Lake — Desire to see Sebituane — Sekomi — The Desert — Bushmen — Bakalahari 

 — Water-Sucking — Across the Desert — Difficulties — Salt Pans — The Zouga — 

 Quakers of Africa — Lake Ngami Discovered — The Lake — Sebituane — Guides 

 Refused — Sketch of the Zouga — Elephants — Trees— Fish— Bayieye — Kolobeng 

 again — Home-life in Kolobeng. 



The Bechuanas live in a country remarkable for its beauty 

 and fertility, a country abounding in herds. They are sepa- 

 rated from the Cape Colony by the Sneuwberg Mountains, 

 and beyond the mountains a pastoral district, where Bush- 

 men and Hottentots have their wandering sway, and after these 

 the Orange river; just over the Orange are the Bechuanas. 

 On the left hand, which is west, is the Kalahari Desert; on 

 the right hand, which is the east, lies the Caffre territory and 

 the mountains. The Bechuanas comprise a number of tribes, 

 whose chiefs have independent patriarchal authority. These 

 tribes are generally rather in advance of their neighbors in 

 natural intelligence ; they dwell more in cities, and pay more 

 attention to agriculture ; they are more advanced in the arts. 



The names of Trutter and Sumerville are associated with 

 the earliest knowledge we have of this people. These gen- 

 tlemen reported the discovery of Lattakoo as late as 1801. 

 It was among these tribes that Mr. Campbell did his work 

 of love. Rev. Robert Moffat had been there many years 

 before 1840; Lattakoo, or Kuruman, was his station. The 

 Bakwains are a Bechuana tribe; their territory is north of 

 Kuruman. Shokuane, the city of the chief, when Dr. Living- 

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