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find. I have been in their canoes, and found the pots boiling 

 briskly until we came near to the villages. Having dined, 

 we then entered with the pots empty, and looking quite inno- 

 cently on any strangers who happened to drop in to dinner." 



An attempt at making them soldiers failed, as will be seen 

 by the following statement : 



"A long time after the period of our visit, the Chief of the 

 Lake, thinking to make soldiers of them, took the trouble to 

 furnish them with shields. ' Ah ! we never had these before ; 

 that is the reason we have always succumbed. Now we will 

 fight.' But a marauding party came from the Makololo, and 

 our 'Friends' at once paddled quickly, night and day, down 

 the Zouga, never daring to look behind them till they reached 

 the end of the river, at the point where we first saw it 1 ." 



The Under this general term the natives them- 



makalala. selves embrace the whole negro family of tribes, 

 as distinguished from the Bechuana variety; and especially 

 from the Makololo : the Makalala form the great bulk of 

 the inhabitants in the Makololo country. They had never 

 seen a white man before Dr Livingstone. These people reside 

 chiefly between 22° and 23° south latitude ; and are in sub- 

 jection to others, being somewhat in the condition of the 

 ancient Saxon villeins. Their service is genuine serfdom, 

 since it was originally dictated, and is still kept up, by force 

 of arms. 



As is often the case with the wronged and weak, the 

 Makalala are great thieves; and are the pirates of the Lee- 

 ambye. The Makololo treat them like children rather than 

 as slaves, since they can so easily run away to other tribes, 

 the chiefs of which are always eager to receive them. 



In manners they are mild and submissive; they cultivate 

 dura, maize, beans, ground nuts, pumpkins, water-melons, 

 sugar-cane, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, and manioc. The 

 1 Travels, p. 64. 



