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done wrong, and laid the guilt of the wars in which the 
Makololo had engaged on the Boers, the Matebele, and 
every other tribe except his own. When quite a youth, 
Motibe’s family had been attacked by a party of Boers : he 
hid himself in an ant-eater’s holo, but was drawn out and 
thrashed with a whip of hippopotamus-hide. When en- 
joined to live in peace, he would reply, “ Teach the Boers 
to lay down their arms first.” Yet Motibe, on other occa- 
sions, seemed to feel the difference between those who are 
Christians indeed and those who are so only in name. In 
all our discussions we parted good friends. 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
DR. LIVINGSTON E DISCOVERS THE FALLS OP VICTORIA. 
On the 3d of Novembor we bade adieu to our friends at 
Linyanti, accompanied by Sokelotu and about 200 followers. 
We were all fed at his expense, and he took cattle for this 
purpose from every station we came to. The principal 
men of the Makololo, Lebed] o, Ntlarie, Nkwatlele, Ac. were 
also of the party. We passed through the patch of the 
tsetse, which exists betwoen Linyanti and Sesheko, by night. 
The majority of the company went on by daylight, in 
ordei to prepare our beds. Sekelotu and I, with about 
fbrty young men, waited outside the tsetse till dark. Ws 
then wont forward, and about ten o’clock it became so 
pitchy dark that both horses and men were completely 
blinded. The lightning spread over the sky, forming eight 
or ten branches at a time, in shapr xactly like those of ® 
tree. This, with great volumes of oneet-lightning, enabled 
os at times to see the whole country. The intervals between 
the flashes were so densely dark as to convoy tho idea of 
stone-blindness. The horses trembled, cried out, and turned 
round, m if searching for each othor, and every now fls“k 
