24S MOSHOBOTWANE. CHAr. XT. 



tlieir native attendants, from Kuruman, had succumbed to 

 the fever, and the survivors had retired some weeks before 

 our arrival. We remained the whole of the 7th beside the 

 village of the old Batoka chief, Moshobotwane, the stoutest man 

 we have seen in Africa. The cause of our delay here was a 

 severe attack of fever in Charles Livingstone. He took a 

 dose of our fever pills ; was better on the 8th, and marched 

 three hours; then on the 9th marched eight miles to the 

 Great Falls, and spent the rest of the day in the fatiguing 

 exercise of sight-seeing. We were in the very same valley 

 as Linyanti, and this was the same fever which treated, or 

 rather maltreated, with only a little Dover's powder, proved 

 so fatal to poor Helmore ; the symptoms, too, were identical 

 with those afterwards described by non-medical persons, as 

 those of poison. 



We gave Moshobotwane a present, and a pretty plain 

 exposition of what we thought of his bloody forays among 

 his Batoka brethren. A scolding does most good to the 

 recipient, when put alongside some obliging act. He certainly 

 did not take it ill, as was evident from what he gave us in 

 return ; which consisted of a liberal supply of meal, milk, 

 and an ox. He has a large herd of cattle, and a tract of fine 

 pasture-land on the beautiful stream Lekone. A home- 

 feeling comes over one, even in the interior of Africa, at 

 seeing once more cattle grazing peacefully in the meado\vs. 

 The tsetse inhabits the trees which bound the pasture-land 

 on the west ; so, should the herdsman forget his duty, the 

 cattle straying might be entirely lost. The women of this 

 village were more numerous than the men, the result of 

 the chief's marauding. The Batoka wife of Sima came up 

 from the Falls, to welcome her husband back, bringing a 

 present of the best fruits of the country. Her husband was 



