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to Sekeletu. A stranger, seeing an animal he had nover 
viewed before, killed it and brought tho trophy to the 
chief, thinking that he had made a very remarkable dis- 
covery : we thereby lost the breed of cats, of which from 
tho swarms of mice, we stood in groat need. 
On making inquiries to ascertain whether Santuru, the 
Mol5iana, had ever been visited by white men, I could find 
no vestige of any such visit; there is no evidence of any 
of Santuru's peoplo having over seen a whito man before 
the arrival of Mr. Oswell and myself in 1851. The people 
have, it is true, no written records ; but any remarkable 
event here is commemorated in names, as was observed by 
Park to bo tho case in the countries ho traversed. The 
year of our arrival is dignified by the name of the year 
when the whito men came, or of Sebituane’s death ; but 
thoy prefer the former, as they avoid, if possible, any direct 
reference to tho departed. After my wife’s first visit, great 
numbers of children were named Ma-Robert, or mother ol 
Robert, her eldest child; others wero named Gun, Horso, 
Wagon, Monaro, Jesus, &c. ; but though our names, and 
those of tho native Portuguese who came in 1853, wore 
adopted, there is not a trace of any thing of tho sort having 
happened previously among tho Barotse: tho visit of a 
white man is such a remarkable event, that, had any taken 
place during the last three hundred years, there must have 
remained some tradition of it. 
The town or mound of Santuru's mother was shown to 
me : this was the first symptom of an altered state of fool- 
ing with regard to tho female sex that 1 had observed. 
There are few or no cases of women being elevated to the 
headships of towns farther south. Tho Barotso also showod 
some relics of their chief, which evinced a greater amount 
of tho religious feeling than I had ever known displayed 
among Bechuanas. ILis moro recent capital, Lilonda, built) 
too, on an artificial mound, is covered with different kinds 
of trees, transplanted when young by himself. They form 
a grove on the ead of the mound, in which are to bo sees 
