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MEAT-EATERS AND GRAIN-EATERS. 
did not visit the opposite side of the chasm, or see the 
wonderful course of the Zambesi be) r ond the Falls. It was 
during this visit, however, that Garden Island was planted, 
and the name given to it. 
Continuing their expedition, the party crossed the Lekoue 
at its confluence, about eight days above the island Kalai, 
and went on to a village opposite the island Chuudu. Its 
head man, Nambowe, was a Zulu, who had fled from the 
anger of Moselekatse and taken refuge with the Makololo. 
Among the coast tribes a fugitive is almost always made a 
slave, but here he retains the rank he held at home. The 
children of captives are also treated like the children of 
their captors. The same system prevails among the Zulus 
or Matebele. 
On the 13th they met a party from Sekeletu, who was 
then at Sesheke. On the 17th a messenger from Sekeletu 
met them. These messengers will carry long messages 
word for word, and one of the native objections to learning 
to write, is that these messengers can carry any message 
necessary to be sent. 
Except the small rapids by Mparira Islands, near the 
mouth of the Chobe, the rest of the way to Sesheke by 
water is smooth. The extensive plains along the banks 
might easily be irrigated from the Zambesi, and be made 
to support an immense population. Watered, thej r would 
yield crops the year round. On the 18th the part)’ arrived 
at Sesheke. The old town, on the left bank, is in ruins ; a 
new one has been built on the same side, a little further up- 
The Makololo are great meat eaters, and when they g° 
on a foray, ns they often do, for a month, many of the sub 
ject tribes who accompany them, being grain eaters, perish 
from sheer fatigue, while the beef-eaters scorn the idea of 
being even tired. From the experience gathered in Africa 
It would appear that meat eating men, like the carnivora 
among animals, were much more fitted for endurance of 
violent exercise than those who lived exclusively upon * 
vegetable diet. 
