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them?" Ma-Sekeletu asserted that it was Moselekatse who 

 had made the Makololo covetous, or yellow-hearted, pelutsetla. 

 He had taken their cattle, and subsequent hunger had made 

 them greedy of the oxen of other tribes. She being the 

 chiefs mother, we may imagine what his education on the 

 maternal side has been. They often try to make peace, not- 

 withstanding, amongst themselves. Two men were wrangling 

 and cursing each other one day, when Moikele, a Makololo 

 man, rose, and, to prevent mischief, quietly took their spears 

 from the corner in which they stood, and sitting down beside 

 Dr. Livingstone remarked, " It is the nature of bulls to gore 

 each other." This is probably the idea that lies at the 

 bottom of Muscular Heathenism, if not of Muscular Chris- 

 tianity. 



On the last occasion of our holding Divine service at 

 Sesheke, the men were invited to converse on the subject on 

 which they had been addressed. So many of them had died 

 since we were here before, that not much probability existed 

 of our all meeting again, and this had naturally led to the 

 subject of a future stata They replied that they did not 

 wish to offend the speaker, but they could not believe that 

 all the dead would rise again : " Can those who have been 

 killed in the field and devoured by the vultures; or those 

 who have been eaten by the hyenas or lions ; or those who 

 have been tossed into the river, and eaten by more than 

 one crocodile, — can they all be raised again to life ? " They 

 were told that men could take a leaden bullet, change it 

 into a salt (acetate of lead), which could be dissolved as 

 completely in water, as our bodies in the stomachs of ani- 

 mals, and then reconvert it into lead; or that the bullet 

 could be transformed into the red and white paint of our 

 wagons, and again be reconverted into the original lead ; 

 and that if men exactly like themselves could do so much, 



