CHAPTER IV. 



NINE WEEKS WITH SEKELETU. 



Arrival at Linyanti — Makololo — Their Policy — Welcome to Livingstone — 

 Sekeletu — African Hospitality — Ma-niochisane's Difficulty — Livingstone re- 

 fuses to Trade — His Labors — Makololo Ideas of Beauty — Manliness — Justice — 

 Livingstone's Journey to the Barotse — The Soil along the Chobe — The Party 

 — Receptions — Sekeletu loves Coffee — Huts and Hats — The Leeambye — 

 Animals about Katonga — The Splendid River — The Makalaka — The Contrast 

 — Cattle and War — Rapids — Cataracts — Falls — No Monuments in Africa — The 

 Barotse Valley — Fertility — Mounds— Punishment — War Averted — The first 

 White Man — To the Leeba — No place for a Mission — The Wildest of all — Lin- 

 yanti again — For Loanda — Serious Thoughts — Resolution — Outfit for Jour- 

 ney — November 11th, 1853 — Escape from an Elephant — The Hippopotamus — 

 The Scenery on the Chobe — Arrival at Sesheke. 



That was a great day in Linyanti, that 23d day of May. 

 The capital of the Makololo had never witnessed such a sight. 

 The wagons were a phenomenon entirely new. The people 

 remembered Livingstone as the friend of Sebituane ; they asso- 

 ciated his coming with ideas of increasing greatness. It seemed 

 like the hand of the great outside world reaching through the 

 barriers of wilderness and distance, eager in congratulation and 

 warm with brotherly love. They were glad. The nearer tribes 

 had beaten back the light from the dwellers in the Chobe 

 marshes for many years ; now it was breaking through, and 

 found a people ready to rejoice in its blessings. The Makololo 

 are the most northern of the Bechuanas, and, under the wise and 

 warlike Sebituane, had become a powerful nation ; the other 

 chieftains had acknowledged the greatness of this man, and 

 accorded him the respect which they feared to withhold if they 

 had desired to do so. The Makololo had conquered the whole 

 country to the 14° S. latitude, and were scattered thinly over 

 their broad domain, giving a name and laws to the tribes 

 among whom their individual identity was almost lost. The 

 territory which Sebituane had selected in the days when he was 

 beset by continual wars, lying between the Chobe and Zambesi, 

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