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MEETING WITH SEBITUANE. 
often bo soft that tho fingers may bo made to meet through 
it. The lungs and livor partako of tho disoaso. The 
trtomach and bowels are palo and empty, and tho gall- 
bladder is distended with bilo. 
Tho mulo, ass, and goat enjoy tho same immunity lro 
tho tsetse as man and game. Many largo tribes on tho 
ZamhcBi can keep no domestic animals except tho goat, in 
consequonco of tho scourgo existing in thoir country. Our 
children were froquontly bitten, yet suffered no haim; 
and wo saw around us numbers of zobras, buffaloes, pigs, 
pallahs and other antelopes, feeding quietly in tho vory 
habitat of tho tsotso, yet as undisturbed by its bite as 
oxen aro when they first rocoivo tho fatal poison. 
Lho Makololo whom wo mot on tho Chobo wero delighted 
to soo us; and, as thoir chiof Sobituano was about twenty 
miles down the river, Mr. OswoU and I proceeded in canoes 
to his temporary rosidcnco. Ho had como from tho Barotso 
town of Nalielo down to Scsheko as soon as ho heard of 
white men being in search of him, and now camo ono hundred 
miles moro to bid us wolcomo into his country. Ho was 
upon an island, with all his principal men around him, and 
en g a g°d in 8 ' n giog when wo arrived. It was moro liko 
churdi-musio than tho sing-song e e e, m ro so, of the 
Bcchuanas of tho south, and they continued tho tuno for 
some seconds after wo approached. Wo informed him of the 
difficulties wo had encountered, and how glad wo wero that 
they wero all at an end by at last reaching his presence. 
Ho signified his own joy, and added, “ Your cattlo aro all 
bitten by tho tsetse, and will certainly dio ; but novor mil d, 
I have oxon, and will givo you as many as you need.” Wo, 
our ignoranco, then thought that as so fow tsotso had 
bitten them no great mischiof would follow. Ho thon pro- 
sentod us with *n ox and ajar of honey as food, and haudod 
ns over to tho care of Malialo, who had headed tho party 
to olobeng, and would now fain appropriate to himself 
tho wholo credit of our coming. Prepared skins of oxon, 
as soft as cloth were givoD to cover us through the night. 
