8 LECTURE I. 



overjoyed at the suggestion, and furnished me with 

 twenty-seven men, and canoes, and provisions, and pre- 

 sents for the tribes through whose country we had to 

 pass. We might have taken a shorter path to the sea 

 than that to the north, and then to the west, by which 

 we went ; but along the country by the shorter route, 

 there is an insect called the tsetse 1 , whose bite is fatal to 

 horses, oxen, and dogs, but not to men or donkeys. — 

 You seem to think there is a connexion between the 

 two. — The habitat of that insect is along the shorter 

 route to the sea. The bite of it is fatal to domestic 

 animals, not immediately, but certainly in the course of 

 two or three months ; the animal grows leaner and leaner, 



seven men, as here mentioned, for the first, and that of one hundred 

 and fourteen men for the second, great journey ; also, ten tusks of ivory 

 to help to defray the costs of the former, and thirty for the latter. 



He is a man of enlightened mind, and a peace-maker. When our 

 traveller set out from Linyanti on his journey towards the Barotse 

 country, he accompanied him with one hundred and sixty attendants. 

 During this journey they ate together, dwelt in the same tent, and 

 returned to Linyanti after a nine weeks' tour. When Dr Livingstone 

 and his party set out for Loanda, he lent his own canoes, and sent 

 orders for their maintenance wherever they came in his dominions, and 

 gave them a most touching and spirit-stirring reception on their return 

 to Linyanti. On this occasion the presents received, story told, and 

 greetings given, were of a most satisfactory character. 



To shew the eagerness of Secheletu to trade with the white man, he 

 immediately dispatched another party to Loanda, who arrived safely 

 there after our traveller's arrival in England. To the latter he gave all 

 the ivory in his country, and asked him to bring from England, as well 

 as a sugar-mill, ' ' any beautiful thing you may see in your own country." 

 He eagerly and confidently awaits our traveller's promised return. 



1 For an account of the tsetse, see Appendix, p. 81. 



