28 RETURN TO THE MAKOLOLO. Chap. I. 



Kangornba rocks, it was put on shore and sent in the day- 

 time through the pass. It was of course bitten by the 

 tsetse, and died soon after ; it was thought that the air of 

 Tette had not agreed with it. The currents above Lupata 

 are stronger than those below ; the country becomes more 

 picturesque and hilly, and there is a larger population. 



The ship anchored in the stream, off Tette, on the 8th 

 September, 1858, and Dr. Livingstone went ashore in the 

 boat. No sooner did the Makololo recognize him, than 

 they rushed to the water's edge, and manifested great joy 

 at seeing him again. Some were hastening to embrace 

 him, but others cried out, "Don't touch him, you will 

 spoil his new clothes." The five headmen came on board 

 and listened in quiet sadness to the story of poor Sekwebu, 

 who died at the Mauritius on his way to England. " Men 

 die in any country," they observed, and then told us that 

 thirty of their own number had died of smallpox, having 

 been bewitched by the people of Tette, who envied them 

 because, during the first year, none of their party had 

 died. Six of their young men, becoming tired of cutting 

 firewood for a meagre pittance, proposed to go and dance 

 for gain before some of the neighbouring chiefs. " Don't 

 go," said the others, "we don't know the people of this 

 country ; " but the young men set out and visited an in- 

 dependent half-caste chief, a few miles to the north, 

 named Chisaka, who some years ago burned all the 

 Portuguese villas on the north bank of the river; after- 

 wards the young men went to Bonga, son of another half- 

 caste chief, who bade defiance to the Tette authorities, 

 and had a stockade at the confluence of the Zambesi and 

 Luenya, a few miles below that village. Asking the 

 Makololo whence they came, Bonga rejoined, "Why do 

 you come from my enemy to me? You have brought 

 witchcraft medicine to kill me." In vain they protested 

 that they did not belong to the country; they were 



