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of these basaltic hills near Letloche I was only ten days 
distant from the lower part of the Souga, which passed by 
the same name as Lake Ngami ; and I might then (in 
1842) have discovered that lake, had discovery alone been 
my object. Most part of this journey beyond Shokuane 
was performed on foot, in consequence of the draught-oxen 
having become sick. Some of my companions who had 
recently joined us, and did not know that I understood a 
little of their speech, were overheard by me discussing my 
appearance and powers: “He is not strong; he is quite 
slim, and only' appears stout because he puts himself into 
those bags, (trowsers :) he will soon knock up.” This 
caused my Highland blood to rise, and made me despise the 
fatigue of keeping them all at the top of their speed for 
days together, and until I heard them expressing proper 
opinions of my pedestrian powers. 
Returning to Kuruman, in order to bring my luggage 
to our proposed settlement, 1 was followed by the nows 
that the tribe of Bakwains, who had shown themselves so 
friendly toward mo, had boen driven from Lepelolo by the 
Barolongs, so that my prospects for the time of forming, a 
settlement there were at an end. Ono of those periodical 
outbreaks of war, which seem to have occurred from tirao 
immemorial, for the possession of cattle, had burst forth in 
the land, and had so changed the relations of the tribes to 
each other that I was obliged to set out anew to look foi 
a suitable locality for a mission-station. 
As some of the Bamangwato people had accompanied me 
to Kuruman, I was obliged to restoro thorn and their goods 
to their chief SckiSmi. This mado a journey to tho residence 
°f that chief again necessary, and, Ibr tho first tirao, I per- 
formed a distance of some hundred miles on ox-back. 
Keturning toward Kuruman, I selected tho beautiful 
'''alloy of Mabotsa (lat. 25° 14' south, long. 26° 30' ?) as the 
site of a missionary' station, and thither 1 removed in 1843. 
Kero an occurrence took placo concerning which 1 have 
frequently boon questioned in lingland, and which, but for 
