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way. Seeing we have no difficulty in tracing religious practices found in 

 Abyssinia to a Christian source, it is not unnatural to suppose that many 

 African religious customs are Jewish. 



5 Page 35, /. 23. — The Bushmen, or Basaroa of the South African 

 deserts, are not related to the negroes. They may be the descendants of 

 runaway Hottentots of long years ago, as the Bakalahali are runaway 

 Bechuana of to-day. The Hottentot and Bushmen belong to the red- 

 skinned races, and their language is said to have something in common 

 with the language of the Laplanders. 



6. Page 37, /. 28. — The Christian chief Khama has done much for these 

 poor inhabitants of the desert, persuading them to dig the ground and 

 build villages by offering presents of goats and cattle. 



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7. Page 41, /. 10. — Sekomi was chief of the Bamangwato, and father 

 of the present chief Khama. He was bitterly opposed to his son becoming 

 a Christian, and in order to prevent his ever coming into power Sekomi 

 abdicated in favour of a distant relative, Machang ; but the tribe revolted, 

 and in August, 1872, Khama was declared chief of the Bamangwato. 



8. Page 48, /. 1. — Lechelatebe was succeeded by his son Moremi, the 

 present chief of the Batauana. The late Mr. Hepburn was the first mis- 

 sionary to follow up Dr. Livingstone's discovery of Lake Ngami. His 

 success was remarkable, and in a short time the whole tribe seemed to be 

 affected. They gave up their Bushman slaves ; Dr. Moffat's translation of 

 the Bible was carried into the country by the waggon-load. Repeated 

 attacks from marauding bands of Matabele, however, soon tested the 

 value of Moremi's conversion, and when Mr. Hepburn visited the country 

 in 1886 he was met with shouts of "Beat him ! Kill him !" Still some 

 stood fast. 



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9. Page 58, /. 16. — This is so ; the Tsetse fly quickly disappears with 

 the buffalo. The rinderpest that has wrought such havoc in South Africa 

 has swept off hundreds of thousands of buffalo in the far interior, leaving 

 the plains white with their bones ; but in a remarkably short time it was 

 found that the " fly " had disappeared from large areas, and that cattle 

 could be brought into the country. 



10. Page 58, /. 35. — Mahale was alive in 1883, and continued to take to 

 himself a large share of the credit of bringing both the missionary and the 

 trader into the country. 



11. Page 61, I. 31. — The Barotse account of their conquest, however, 

 differs slightly. Upon the death of their chief Malunda, they say, two 

 rivals to the chieftainship appeared; the wiser of the two appealed for help 

 to Sebituane, the other fled with his followers up the Kabombo. 



12. Page 64, /. 27. — The name " Mambari " is given by the free natives 



