Chap. IV. 
CAEEEE OF SEBITUANE. 
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cliief of the Bangwaketse, he took immediate possession of liis 
town and all liis goods. 
Sebituane subsequently settled at the place called Litubaruba, 
where Sechele now dwells, and his people suffered severely in one 
of those um^ecorded attacks by white men, in which murder is 
committed and materials laid up in the conscience for a future 
judgment. 
A great variety of fortune followed him in the northern part of 
the Bechuana country; twice he lost aU liis cattle by the attacks 
of the Matebele, but always kept his people together, and retook 
more than he lost. He then crossed the Desert by nearly the 
same path that we did. He had captured a guide; and, as it 
was necessary to travel by night in order to reach water, the 
guide took advantage of this and gave him the shp. After 
marcliing till morning, and going as they thought right, they 
found themselves on the trail of the day before. Many of his 
cattle burst away from him in the frenzy of tlnrst, and rushed 
back to Seroth, then a large piece of water, and to Mashiie and 
Lopepe, the habitations of their original owners. He stocked 
himself again among the Batleth, on Lake Kumadau, whose herds 
were of the large-horned species of cattle.* Conquering all around 
the lake, he heard of white men hvhig at the west coast; and 
haunted by what seems to have been the dream of his whole life, 
a desire to have intercourse with the white man, he passed away 
to the south-west, into the parts opened up lately by Messrs. Galton 
and Andersson. There, suffering intensely from tliirst, he and liis 
party came to a small well. He decided that the men, not the 
cattle, should drink it, the former being of most value, as they 
could fight for more, should these be lost. In the morning they 
found the cattle had escaped to the Damaras. 
Eeturning to the north poorer than he started, he ascended the 
Teoughe to the hill Sorila, and crossed over a swampy country 
to the eastwards. Pursuing his course onwards to the low-lying 
basin of the Leeambye, he saw that it presented no attraction to 
* We found tlie Batauana in possession of this breed when we discovered 
Lake Ngami. One of these horns, brought to England by Major Vardon, 
will hold no less than twenty-one imperial pints of water ; and a pair, brought 
by Mr. Oswell, and now in the possession of Colonel Steele, measures from tip 
to tip eight and a half feet. 
