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to our botanist, and likewise told us how the medicine was 

 prepared; the bark of the root, and, what might please 

 our homoeopathic friends, a dozen of the tsetse are dried, 

 and ground together into a fine powder. This mixture is 

 administered internally ; and the cattle are fumigated by 

 burning under them the rest of the plant collected. The 

 treatment must be continued for weeks, whenever the 

 symptoms of poison appear. This medicine, he frankly 

 admitted, would not cure all the bitten cattle. " For," 

 said he, " cattle, and men too, die in spite of medicine ; 

 but should a herd by accident stray into a tsetse district 

 and be bitten, by this medicine of my father, Kampa- 

 kampa, some of them could be saved, while, without it, all 

 would inevitably die." He stipulated that we were not to 

 show the medicine to other people, and if ever we needed 

 it in this region we must employ him ; but if we were far 

 off we might make it ourselves ; and when we saw it cure 

 the cattle think of him, and send him a present. 



Our men made it known everywhere that we wished 

 the tribes to live in peace, and would use our influence to 

 induce Sekeletu to prevent the Batoka of Moshobotwane 

 and the Makololo under-chiefs making forays into their 

 country : they had already suffered severely, and their 

 remonstrances with their countryman, Moshobotwane, 

 evoked only the answer, " The Makololo have given me a 

 spear ; why should I not use it ? " He, indeed, it was 

 who, being remarkably swift of foot, first guided the 

 Makololo in their conquest of the country. In the cha- 

 racter of peacemakers, therefore, we experienced abundant 

 hospitality ; and, from the Kafue to the Falls, none of our 

 party was allowed to suffer hunger. The natives sent to 

 our sleeping-places generous presents of the finest white 

 meal, and fat capons to give it a relish, great pots of beer 

 to comfort our hearts, together with pumpkins, beans, and 

 tobacco, so that we "should sleep neither hungry nor 

 thirsty." 



