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STAKT FOR THE COUNTRY OF SEBITUANE. Chap. IV. 
CHAPTER lY. 
Leave Kolobeng again for tlie country of Sebituane — Reach the Zouga — 
The tsetse — A jDarty of Englishmen — Death of Mr. Rider — Obtain 
guides — Children fall sick with fever Relinquish the attempt to reach 
Sebituane ■— Mr. Oswell’s elephant-hunting —- Return to Kolobeng — 
Make a third start thence — Reach Nchokdtsa — Salt-pans — Links,” 
or springs — Bushmen — Our guide Shobo — The Banajoa — An ugly 
chief — The tsetse —• Bite fatal to domestic animals, but harmless to wild 
animals and man — Operation of the poison Losses caused by it—- The 
Makololo — Our meeting with Sebituane — Sketch of his career —His 
courage and conquests — Manoeuvres of the Batdka — He outwits them 
— His wars with the Matebele—Predictions of a native prophet — Suc¬ 
cesses of the Makololo — Renewed attacks of the Matebele — The island of 
Loyelo — Defeat of the Matebele — Sebituane’s policy — His kindness to 
strangers, and to the poor — His sudden illness, and death — Succeeded 
by his daughter — Her friendliness to us — Discovery, in June, 1851, of 
the Zambesi flowing in the centre of the ccntinent—Its size—The Mambari 
— The slave-trade — Determine to send family to England — Return to 
the Cape in April 1852 — Safe transit through the Caffre country during 
hostilities — Need of a “ Special Correspondent” — Kindness of the Lon¬ 
don Missionary Society — Assistance afforded by the Astronomer Royal at 
the Cape. 
Having returned to Kolobeng, I remained there till April, 
1850, and then left in company with Mrs. Livingstone, our three 
children, and the chief Sechele,—-who had now bought a waggon 
of his own,—in order to go across the Zouga at its lower end, 
with the intention of proceeding up the northern bank till we 
gained the Tamunak’le, and of then ascending that river to visit 
Sebituane in the north. Sekomi had given orders to fill up the 
wells which we had dug with so much labour at SerotK, so we 
took the more eastern route through the Bamangwato town and 
by Letloche. That cliief asked why I had avoided him in our 
former journeys ? I replied that my reason was that I knew he 
did not wish me to go to the lake, and I did not want to quarrel 
with him. “ Well,” he said, “ you beat me then, and I am 
content,” 
Partmg with Sechele at the ford, as he was eager to visit 
Lechulatebe, we went along the northern woody bank of the 
