CHAPTER III. 



DESERTS AND FORESTS. 



Livingstone's Second Journey to the Lake — Pass the Zouga — Forests — Tsetse — 

 Recross the Zouga — Lake Nganii Again — Hopes of Seeing Sebituane — Guides 

 Secured — Sickness of Children — Return to Kolobeng — Opposition of Chiefs — 

 Sebituane's Messengers — Third Start — The Old Path — Desert — Guide "Wanders 

 — Five Terrible Days — Water Found — Banajoa — Guide to the Chobe — The 

 Mokolo — Meets Sebituane — Death of Sebituane — Discovery of the Zambesi — 

 Returns to Cape — Sends his Family to England — A New Tour Undertaken — 

 Party — General Idea — Former Occupants of the Cape — Boers of the Cape — 

 Griquas' Territory — Effects of Mission Work — Kuruman — Dr. Moffat — Bible 

 Translation — Language — War of Boers — Difficulties — Servants Secured — Starts 

 North — Lion — Buffalo — Sechele's Tour— Serpents — The Ostrich — Motlasta — 

 Belief in God — Salt Pans — Koobe — Famished Beasts — Livingstone's Kindness 

 — Tremendous Trees — Singular Vitality — Civilized vs. Native Hunters — Unku 

 and Sunday — Difficult Advance — The Way to Cut with the Axe — Wild 

 Animals — The Sanshureh — Linyanti — May 23, 1853 — Circumcision — Appear- 

 ance of Country. 



Dr. Livingstone was not the man to abandon a cherished 

 enterprise ; his resolution strengthened when difficulties mul- 

 tiplied. He had discovered Lake Ngami, but he had not 

 seen Sebituane; he had not gained his great influence for 

 Christianity. He was determined he would not relinquish his 

 purpose. Accordingly in April, 1850, he began a second journey 

 northward. This time Sechele joined him ; Mrs. Livingstone 

 also gave to the party the pleasure and singular interest of a 

 woman's presence among explorers of African wilds, and the 

 helplessness and gleefulness of children made the lumbering 

 ox-wagons seem like a home. This time they took a more 

 easterly route, and instead of striking across the desert from 

 Bashue, as they had done before, Livingstone decided to go 

 through the Bamangwato town. The chief there, Letoche, 

 confessed himself to have been beaten by the success of the 

 Doctor in his former journey, and declared himself content. 

 Reaching the Zouga, this time the party crossed it, Living- 

 stone designing thus to avoid the difficulty which he might 

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