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like men to raise this heap of stones, as their protest 

 against the wrong the other tribe had done them, which, 

 having accomplished, they returned quietly home." Such 

 men of peace could not stand before the Makololo, 

 nor, of course, the more warlike Matebele, who coming 

 afterwards, drove even their conquerors, the Makololo, out 

 of the country. Sebetuane, however, profiting by the 

 tactics which he had learned of the Batoka, inveigled a 

 large body of this new enemy on to another island, and 

 after due starvation there overcame the whole. A much 

 greater army of " Moselekatse's own " followed with 

 canoes, but were now baffled by Sebetuane's placing all 

 his people and cattle on an island and so guarding it that 

 none could approach. Dispirited, famished, borne down 

 by fever, they returned to the Falls, and all except five 

 were cut off. 



But though the Batoka appear never to have had much 

 inclination to fight with men, they are decidedly brave 

 hunters of buffaloes and elephants. They go fearlessly 

 close up to these formidable animals, and kill them with 

 large spears. The Banyai, who have long bullied all 

 Portuguese traders, were amazed at the daring and bravery 

 of the Batoka in coming at once to close quarters with the 

 elephant ; and Chisaka, a Portuguese rebel, having formerly 

 induced a body of this tribe to settle with him, ravaged 

 all the Portuguese villas around Tette. They bear the 

 name of Basimilongwe, and some of our men found rela- 

 tions among them. Sininyane and Matenga also, two of 

 our party, were once inveigled into a Portuguese expe- 

 dition against Mariano, by the assertion that the Doctor 

 had arrived and had sent for them to come down to Senna. 

 On finding that they were entrapped to fight, they left, 

 after seeing an officer with a large number of Tette slaves 

 killed. 



The Batoka had attained somewhat civilized ideas, in 



