PERSECUTED BY MOSILIKATSE. 
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wait till lie got back to the house, where he knew the 
water had no snakes, blind worms, or crocodiles. 
The Boers are nearly as bad; they excused them¬ 
selves for not swimming in the river by saying that 
a man had once been killed by a crocodile. 
2hth [Sunday ).—We are outspanned at length by 
some beautiful water, and are awaiting the arrival of 
some of Mosilikatse’s people, as messengers were sent 
three days ago, saying we were here. We left a 
Maccateese kraal yesterday, very much against the 
wish of the captain, who would send no one with us 
to show the road, and endeavoured to deter us by 
saying we should find no water, no elephants, and 
the Blood Kaffirs, or Carl (naked) Kaffirs, Mosilikatse’s 
people, would certainly turn us back. They told us 
all manner of lies, and contradicted themselves over 
and over again, by which means we found them out. 
The Maccateese are called likewise Bechuanas, Bequi- 
nas, and Basutos. 
I may mention at once that we were kept two 
months by this river, as Mosilikatse got it into his 
sagacious head that we were spies ; and a large 
commando was following us, and detained us to see if 
such was the case, while he sent scouring parties all 
round his dominions. One party came across some 
Saltpansberg Boers hunters north of Limpopo, in 
Mosilikatse’s country, without his permission, who, 
immediately on perceiving the Matabele, altered their 
course south-west again, though previously they were 
coming north-east. On this being reported at head- 
