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■white men, In which murder is committed and materials 

 laid up in the conscience for a future judgment. 



A great variety of fortune followed him in the northern 

 part of the Bechuana country ; twice he lost all his cattle 

 "by the attacks of the Matebele, but always kept his 

 people together, and retook more than he lost. He then 

 crossed the Desert by nearly the same path that we did. 

 He had captured a guide ; and, as it was necessary to 

 travel by night in order to reach water, the guide took 

 ■advantage of this and gave him the slip. After marching 

 "till morning, and going as they thought right, they found 

 themselves on the trail of the day before. Many of his 

 cattle burst away from him in the frenzy of thirst, and 

 rushed back to Serotli, then a large piece of water, and to 

 Mashiie and Lopepe, the habitations of their original 

 •owners. He stocked himself again among the Batletli, on 

 X,ake Kumadau, whose herds were of the large-horned 

 species of cattle.* Conquering all round the lake, he 

 lieard of white men living at the west coast ; and haunted 

 "by what seems to have been the dream of his whole life, 

 aa desire to have intercourse with the white man, he 

 passed away to the south-west, into the parts opened up 

 lately by Messrs. Galton and Andersson. There, suffering 

 intensely from thirst, he and his party came to a small 

 well. He decided that the men, not the cattle, should 

 drink it, the former being of most value, as they could 

 right for more, should these be lost. In the morning 

 they found the cattle had escaped to the Damards. 



Returning to the north poorer than he started, he 

 ascended the Teoughe to the hill Sorila, and crossed over 

 3. swampy country to the eastwards. Pursuing his course 

 onwards to the low-lying basin of the Leeambye, he saw 

 that it presented no attraction to a pastoral tribe like his, 

 so he moved down that river among the Bashubia and 

 Batoka, who were then living in all their glory. His 

 narrative resembled closely the " Commentaries of 

 Ceesar," and the history of the British in India. He was 

 always forced to attack the different tribes, and to this day 



* We found the Batauana* in possession of this breed when we 

 discovered Lake N garni. One of these horns, brought to England by 

 Major Vardon, will hold no less than twenty-one imperial pints of 

 water ; and a pair, brought by Mr. Oswell, and now in the possession 

 of Colonel Steele, measures from tip to tip eight and a half feet. 



