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as loudly as he could, putting, as is usual in such cases, his 
mouth near the ground, to mako tho sound rovorberato. 
The rivor was too broad for a ball to roach him, so wo lot 
him enjoy himself, certain that he durst not havo boon 
guilty of tho impertinence in tho Bushman country. 
Wherever the gamo abounds, those animals exist in pro- 
portionate numbers. Hero they wore very frequently soon, 
and two of tho largest I ever saw seemed about as tall as 
common donkeys; but tho mane made their bodies appear 
rather larger. 
A party of Arabs from Zanzibar were in the country at 
this time. Sekclotu had gone from Naliele to the town of 
his mother before wo arrived from the north, but left an ox 
for our use, and instructions for us to follow him thither. 
We came down a branch of the Leoambye called Marilo, 
which departs from the main river in latitude 15° 15' 43" S. 
and is a fine deep stream about sixty yards wide. It makes 
tho whole of the country around Naliele an island. When 
sleeping at a village in the same latitude as Naliele town, 
two of tho Arabs mentioned made their appearance. They 
were quite as dark as tho Makololo, but, having their heads 
shaved, 1 could not comparo their hair with that of the 
inhabitants of tho country. When we were about to leave, 
they came to bid adieu; but I asked them to stay and 
help us to eat our ox. As they had scruples about eating 
an animal not blooded in their own way, I gained their 
good-will by saying I was quite of their opinion as to 
getting quit of tho blood, and gave them two legs of an 
animal slaughtered by themselves. They professed the 
greatest detestation of the Portuguese, “ because they eat 
pigs;” and disliked the English, “ because thoy thrash them 
for selling slaves.” I was silent about pork ; though, had 
they seen me at a hippopotamus two days afterward, they 
would havo sot me down as being as much a heretic as any 
of that nation ; but I ventured to tell them that 1 agreed 
with tho English, that it was better to let tho children 
grow up and comfort their mothers when they became old, 
