206 ARTICLES IN SAFE CUSTODY. CHAP. VIII. 



Two packages from the Kururuan, containing letters and 

 newspapers, reached Linyanti previous to our arrival, and 

 Sekeletu, not knowing when we were coming, left them 

 there ; but now at once sent a messenger for them. This 

 man returned on the seventh day, having travelled 240 

 geographical miles. One of the packages was too heavy 

 for him, and he left it behind. As the Doctor wished to 

 get some more medicine and papers out of the wagon left 

 at Linyanti in 1853, he decided upon going thither him- 

 self. The chief gave him his own horse, now about 

 twelve years old, and some men. He found everything in 

 his wagon as safe as when he left it seven years before. 

 The headmen, Mosale and Pekonyane, received him cor- 

 dially, and lamented that they had so little to offer him. 

 Oh ! had he only arrived the year previous, when there 

 was abundance of milk and corn and beer. 



Very early the next morning the old town-crier, Ma 

 Pulenyane, of his own accord made a public proclamation, 

 which, in the perfect stillness of the town long before 

 dawn, was striking : "I have dreamed ! I have dreamed ! 

 I have dreamed ! Thou Mosale and thou Pekonyane, my 

 lords, be not faint-hearted, nor let your hearts be sore, but 

 believe all the words of Monare (the Doctor) for his heart 

 is white as milk towards the Makololo. I dreamed that he 

 was coming, and that the tribe would live, if you prayed 

 to God and give heed to the word of Monare." Ma-Pulen- 

 yane showed Dr. Livingstone the burying-place where poor 

 Helmore and seven others were laid, distinguishing those 

 whom he had put to rest, and those for whom Mafale had 

 performed that last office. Nothing whatever marked the 

 spot, and with the native idea of hiding the dead, it was 

 said, " it will soon be all overgrown with bushes, for no 

 one will cultivate there." None but Ma-Pulenyane 

 approached the place, the others stood at a respectful 

 distance; they invariably avoid everything connected 



