176 MEET MAKOLOLO NEAR FALLS. Chap. VII. 



obtained from Chisaka for his feats of dancing. According 

 to our ideas, his first wife could hardly have been pleased 

 at seeing the second and younger one ; but she took her 

 away home with her, while the husband remained with us. 

 In going down to the Fall village we met several of the 

 real Makololo. They are lighter in colour than the other 

 tribes, being of a rich warm brown • and they speak in a 

 slow deliberate manner, distinctly pronouncing every 

 word. On reaching the village opposite Kalai, we had an 

 interview with the Makololo headman, Mashotlane : he 

 came to the shed in which we were seated, a little boy 

 carrying his low three-legged stool before him : on this he 

 sat down with becoming dignity, looked round him for a 

 few seconds, then at us, and, saluting us with " Eumela " 

 (good morning, or hail), he gave us some boiled hippopo- 

 tamus meat, took a piece himself, and then handed the 

 rest to his attendants, who soon ate it up. He defended 

 his forays on the ground that, when he went to collect 

 tribute, the Batoka attacked him, and killed some of his 

 attendants. The excuses made for their little wars are 

 often the very same as those made by Caesar in his " Com- 

 mentaries.' 1 Few admit, like old Moshobotwane, that they 

 fought because they had the power, and a fair prospect of 

 conquering. We found here Pitsane, who had accompanied 

 the Doctor to St. Paul de Loanda. He had been sent by 

 Sekeletu to purchase three horses from a trading party of 

 Griquas from Kuruman, who charged nine large tusks 

 apiece for very wretched animals. 



In the evening, when all was still, one of our men, 

 Takelang, fired his musket, and cried out, " I am weeping 

 for my wife : my court is desolate : I have no home ; " and 

 then uttered a loud wail of anguish. 



We proceeded next morning, 9th August, 1860, to see 

 the Victoria Falls. Mosi-oa-tunya is the Makololo name, 

 and means smoke sounding; Seongo or Chongwe, meaning 



