94 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



cunning enabled him to triumph over the minds of his men, and made his 

 trembling captives soon adore him as an invincible sovereign. Those who 

 resisted, and would not stoop to be his dogs, he butchered. He trained the 

 captured youth in his own tactics, so that the majority of his army were for- 

 eigners ; but his chiefs and nobles gloried in their descent from the Zulu dynasty. 

 He had carried his arms far into the tropics, where, however, he had more than 

 once met with his equal (this was Sebituane) ; and on one occasion, of six hun- 

 dred warriors, only a handful returned to be sacrificed, merely because they had 

 not conquered, or fallen with their companions. Abject representatives came, 

 while I was with him, from the subjugated tribes of the Bamanguato, to solicit 

 his aid against a more distant tribe, which had taken their cattle. By means 

 like these, it may be said, ' He dipped his sword in blood, and wrote his 

 name on lands and cities desolate.' In his person he was below the middle 

 stature, rather corpulent, with a short neck, and in his manner could be ex- 

 ceedingly affable and cheerful. His voice, soft and effeminate, did not indicate 

 that his disposition was passionate ; and, happily for his people, it was not 

 so, or many would have been butchered in the ebullitions of his anger." 



Mr. Moffat frequently visited him and his people after this, and was suc- 

 cessful in planting Christianity amongst them. 



According to his wish, Sebituane was succeeded in the chieftainship by a 

 daughter, to whom Livingstone and his party applied for leave to settle and 

 travel in the country, which was granted. In company with Mr. Oswell, 

 Livingstone discovered the Zambesi in the end of June, 1851, at a point 

 where it was not known previously to exist. The sight of that noble stream, 

 even in the dry season, flowing majestically eastward, with a breadth of from 

 three to six hundred yards, must have filled Livingstone's mind with the hope 

 of the near approach of the time when commerce and Christianity would flow 

 into the heart of the country along this great natural highway. 



As the Makololo between the Chobe and the Zambesi live on the low 

 marshy grounds in the neighbourhood of these rivers and their affluents, as a 

 protection from their numerous enemies, the question of where a mission 

 station could be settled was a serious one. The healthy regions were de- 

 fenceless and not to be thought of in the then state of the country. So there 

 was no help for it but to move south once more, and after shipping his family 

 for England, return to complete the work which no mere personal considera- 

 tions would have stopped at this juncture. 



