CONTENTS. 
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CHAPTER IX. 
Reception at Linyanti — The Court Ilorald — Sokolotu obtains the Chieftainship 
from his Sistor — Sokoletu’s Reason for not learning to road the Bible— 
Public Roligious Services in tbo Kotla — Unfavorable Associations of the 
Place — Native Doctors — Proposals to teach thoMakololo to read — Sekeletu’s 
Present — Reason for accepting it — Trading in Ivory — Accidental Fire — 
Presents forSckelotu . Page 96 
CHAPTER X. 
The Fever — Its Symptoms— Romcdios of tho Nativo Doctors — Hospitality of 
Sokoletu and his People — They cultivato largely — Tho Makalaka or Subject 
Tribes — Sobituano's Policy respecting thorn — Their Affection for him— Pro- 
ducts of tho Soil — Instrument of Culture — Tho Tribute — Distributed by the 
Chief — A Warlike Demonstration — Lechulatobo’s Provocations — Tho Ma- 
kololo determine to punish him.......... 104 
CHAPTER XL 
Departuro from Linyanti for Sesheko — Level Country — Ant-Hills — Wild Date- 
Troes — Appearance of our Attendants on the March — Tho Chief’s Guard — 
They attempt to rido on Oxback — Reception at tho Villagos — Presents of 
Boor and Milk — Eating with the Hand — Tho Chief provides tho Oxen for 
Slaughter — Social Mode of Eating — Cleanliness of Makololo Huts — Their 
Construction and Appearance — Tho Beds — Cross tho Lcoambyo — Aspect of 
this part of tho Country — Hunting — An Eland 109 
CHAPTER XII. 
Procure Canoes and asccua tho Lcoambyo — Beautiful Islands — Winter Land 
scape — Industry and Skill of the Banyoti — Rapids — Falls of Gonyo — Nulide, 
tho Capital, built on an Artificial Mound — Santuru, a Groat Hunter — -The 
Barotso — More Religious Feeling — Belief in a Future State and in the 
Existonco of Spiritual Beings — Hippopotamus-Hunters — No Healthy Loca- 
tion — Determine to go to Loanda — Buffaloes, Elands, and Lions above 
Libonta — Two Arabs from Zanzibar — Their Opinion of tho Portuguese and 
tho English — Reach tho Town of Ma-Sekeletu — Joy of tho Pooplo at the 
First Visit of their Chief— Return to Sesheko — Heathenism 116 
CHAPTER XIII 
Preliminary Arrangements for tho Journey — A Picho — Twenty-Seven Men 
rppointed to accompany mo to tho West — Eagerness of tho Makololo for 
Direct Trade with the Coast — Effects of Fever — A Makololo Quostion — Re- 
flections — Tho Outfit for tho Journey — 11th November, 1853, leave Linyanti 
and embark on the Chobo — Dangerous Hippopotami — Banks of Chobe — 
Trees — Tbo Course of tho River — Tho Island Mparia at the Confluence of 
the Chobe and the Leeambyo — Anecdote — Ascend tho Locainbyo — Public 
Addresses at Sesheko — Attention of tho Peoplo — Results — Proceed up the 
Rivor — Tho Fruit which yields Nux vomica — Tho Rapids — Hippopotami and 
their Young... . 1W 
