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nothing to show for them save their tails. The merchants at Benguela had 

 treated them kindly, and made them presents of clothing and other articles. 

 As they had only recently arrived, and their clothes were comparatively 

 unworn, they proved, when arrayed in their best, to be as well if not better 

 dressed than Livingstone and his white friends. " They wore shirts well 

 washed and starched, coats and trousers, white socks, and patent leather 

 boots, a red Kilmarnock cowl on the head, and a brown wide-awake on the 

 top of that." They and the travelled natives who had come from Tete 

 fraternised, and held themselves to be something superior on account of what 

 they had seen ; but, as in more enlightened regions, there was not wanting a 

 party who believed in ignorance. " They had seen the sea, had they ? " these 

 would say, " and what is that ? nothing but water. They could see plenty of 

 water at home — ay, more than they wanted to see ; and white people came 

 to their town — why then travel to the coast to look at them ?" 



Sekeletu was well pleased with the articles brought for him. The sugar 

 mill had been left at Tete, being too bulky to be carried with them. On the 

 arrival of a proper steamer for the navigation of the Zambesi, he was informed 

 it would be sent up as far as the falls. In his ignorance as regarded the power 

 of artillery, he asked if cannon could not blow away the falls, and allow the 

 vessel to come up to Sesheke. 



Two packages containing letters and newspapers from Kuruman were 

 lying at Linyanti, and a messenger was sent for them, who returned with 

 only one (the other being too heavy for him), within seven days, during 

 which time he had travelled 240 miles. 



As Dr. Livingstone wished to get some more medicine and papers out of 

 the waggon he had left at Linyanti in 1853, he determined to proceed there 

 himself. On his arrival he found the waggon and its contents untouched from 

 the time of his departure in 1853, and everything in its place. This 

 illustrates the trustworthy character of the Makololo, which was still further 

 exemplified by the discovery of one of the books of notes he had left with 

 Sekeletu on his departure for the west coast in 1853. It will be remembered, 

 that fearing he was dead Sekeletu had given two books, together with a letter 

 addressed to Mr. Moffat, to a native trader, and that nothing further had been 

 heard of them. On being told that the trader, to whom they had said they had 

 given the books and letters, had denied having received them, Seipone, one of 

 Sekeletu's wives, said " He lies ; I gave them to him myself." The trader 

 afterwards went to Moselekatse's country, and his conscience having bothered 

 him, it is presumed, " one of the volumes was put into the mail-bag coming 

 from the south, which came to hand with the lock taken off in quite a 

 scientific manner." 



In the waggon Livingstone found the supply of medicine he had left 

 there untouched, and it was a melancholy reflection that Mr. Helmore and 



