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DEPARTURE FROM LINY ANTI. 
Chobe without our knowledge, but here he drops among us 
like a bird.” 
Next day we returned in canoes across the flooded lands, 
and found that, in our absence, the men had allowed the 
cattle to wander into a very small patch of wood to the west 
containing the tsetse ; this carelessness cost mo ten fine large 
oxen. After remaining a few days, some of the head-men of 
the Makololo came down from Linyanti, with a large party 
of ISarotse, to take us across the river. This they did iu fine 
style, swimming and diving among the oxen more like alliga- 
tors than men, and taking the wagons to pieces and carrying 
them across on a number of canoes lashed together. We 
were now among friends; so, going about thirty miles to the 
north, in order to avoid the still flooded lands on the north 
of the Chobe, we turned westward toward Linyanti, (lat. 18° 
17' 20” S., long. 23° 50' 9” E.,) where we arrived on the 23d 
of May, 1853. This is the capital town of the Makololo, and 
only a short distance from our wagon-stand of 1851, (lat. 
18° 20' 8., long. 73° 50' E.) 
CHAPTER IX. 
DR. LIVINGSTONE LABORS AS A MISSIONARY AMONG THE 
MAKOLOLO. 
The whole population of Linyanti, numbering between 
six and seven thousand souls, turned out en masse to see the 
wagons in motion. They had never witnessed the phenome- 
non before, we having on the former occasion departed by 
night. Sekeletu, now in power, received us in what is con- 
sidered royal style, setting before us a great number of pots 
of boyaloa, the beer of the country. These were brought by 
women, and each bearer takes a good draught of the beer 
when she sets it down, by way of “ tasting,” to show that there 
is no poison. 
