vi PREFACE. 



The main features which characterize the present 

 edition are the following : — 



In the body of the book some slight additions 

 have been made to the narrative portion of the text 

 from memoranda of the traveller's which had escaped 

 notice at an earlier period ; whilst in the footnotes 

 some fresh information has been given, chiefly on 

 botanical points. A uniform system of spelling of 

 native names has also been adopted, under the 

 guidance of the Rev. John Mackenzie, only such 

 words being excepted as have become crystallized, 

 as it were, in other forms by custom or long usage. 1 

 The chromo-lithographs have been reproduced by 

 Mr. Kaufmann, and all the woodcuts executed by 

 Mr. Pearson. 



Of changes in the countries traversed by my 

 brother there have been wonderfully few. The 

 boundaries of Matabele Land remain the same, 

 and Lobengula maintains his supremacy in the 

 tribe. Sekhomi, the former chief of the Bamang- 

 wato, died peaceably in his son's dominions in the 

 year 1883, having been predeceased by his hostile 

 kinsman Matcheng, who is also mentioned in these 

 pages, about four years. Khamani, Khame's 



1 The word Kaffir, spelt with one / only in the first edition, is 

 here spelt with two. It seems useful to revert to this (the older) 

 mode of spelling the word as applied to the natives of South Africa, 

 to mark the distinction between them and the inhabitants of 

 Kafiristan. 



