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me with his songs and antics, changed his tune and began giving 

 off a long discourse on the Last Judgment. When asked where he had 

 heard these things, he explained that when a young man, and before 

 losing his sight, he had travelled with Dr. Livingstone as cook, and that 

 this was a sermon that he had often heard his old master preach. 



26. Page 130, /. 10. — Mr. George Westbeech was the pioneer of the 

 Upper Zambesi ivory trade. He cut the first waggon road through the 

 forest from Buluwayo to the Victoria Falls, and built the trading stations 

 of Panda-ma-tenka and Leshuma. 



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27. Page 135, /. 3. — One of the young Barotse princes that Sebituane 

 brought up at his court — Sepopo by name — led the revolt that ended in 

 the massacre of all the Makololo men ; the women were spared to be the 

 head wives and queens of the country under the Barotse. 



28. Page 137, /. 23. — The more ambitious tribes in Africa have the habit 

 of calling all neighbouring and inferior tribes by a name equal to 

 "barbarian," so all interior tribes were called "Makalaka" by the 

 Bechuana. 



29. Page 138, /. 18. — Mosilikatse was the father of the chief Loben- 

 gula who fought against the South African Chartered Company. His name 

 means "bloody path," and the name he gave to his chief kraal — Bulu- 

 wayo — means "killing-place." 



30. Page 138, /. 25. — Moshesh, the reputed half-brother of Sebituane, 

 pulled the Basuto tribe together with great ability, and the two brothers 

 must have been remarkable men. The story is told of Moshesh, how that 

 after enforcing with great severity the death penalty on all found guilty 

 of cannibalism he decided to relax the law somewhat, believing that the 

 evil had been checked and would die out, when a man was brought to 

 him whom his accusers declared guilty of having eaten the body of 

 Moshesh's own grandfather, "Ought he not to die?" "No," replied 

 the king naively, "let him live. Why should I disturb my grandfather's 

 grave?" 



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31. Page 141, /. 5. — The nakong is known in many Bantu dialects by 

 the Yiame Eshove, and this may account for the name " Chobe " that 

 Dr. Livingstone gave to the river that is better known by that of Linyanti 

 in its lower reach, Mashe higher up, and Kuando nearer to its source. 



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32. Page 150, /. 23. — " Monare " is the name usually given to 

 missionaries in Bechuanaland, and is a corruption of the Dutch Myn Heer, 

 The^Makololo, not understanding the use of titles, called Dr. Livingstone 

 " Monare" instead of Monare Livingstone. 



