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suffice to cut off all the real Makololo ; they came originally 

 from the healthy South, near the confluence of the Likwa 

 and Namagari, where fever is almost unknown, and its 

 ravages had been as frightful among them here, as amongst 

 Europeans on the Coast. Sebituane's sister described its first 

 appearance among the tribe, after their settling in the Ba- 

 rotse Valley on the Zambesi. Many of them were seized 

 with a shivering sickness, as if from excessive cold : they 

 had never seen the like before. They made great fires, 

 and laid the shivering wretches down before them ; but, 

 pile on wood as they might, they could not raise heat 

 enough to drive the cold out of the bodies of the sufferers, 

 and they shivered on till they died. But, though all preferred 

 the highlands, they were afraid to go there, lest the Matebele 

 should come and rob them of their much-loved cattle. Sebi- 

 tuane, with all his veterans, could not withstand that enemy ; 

 and how could they be resisted, now that most of the brave 

 warriors were dead ? The young men would break, and run 

 away the moment they saw the terrible Matebele ; being as 

 much afraid of them, as the black conquered tribes are of 

 the Makololo. " But if the Doctor and his wife," said the 

 Chief and counsellors, " would come and live with us, we 

 would remove to the highlands at once, as Moselekatse 

 would not attack a place where the daughter of his friend, 

 Moffat, was living." 



The Makololo are by far the most intelligent and 

 enterprising of the tribes we have met. None but brave 

 and daring men remained long with Sebituane, his stern 

 discipline soon eradicated cowardice from his army. Death 

 was the inevitable doom of the coward. If the Chief saw 

 a man running away from the fight, he rushed after him 

 with amazing speed, and cut him down; or waited till he 



