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AFKICAN HUNTING. 
by morning. The little there was in the hole we 
transferred most carefully to the anker. I hope to 
get to the Bamangwato State to-morrow. I hear 
Sechele is there, having just returned from Mosil- 
ikatse ; the latter gave him, I am told, forty oxen, 
forty sheep, forty goats, and lots of ivory. 
6£/z.— I found Sechele, as I expected, at the 
Bamangwato State ; and, instead of receiving thanks 
from him for the safe convoy of his daughter, he 
merely pointed to her and said, 6 That is my child, 
whom an Englishman, your countryman, has thrown 
away. I thought the English were my friends ; but 
now I see they are just the same as the Boers, and 
wish to make me dead; and as they have treated 
me so will I treat them.’ He told me that I must pay 
his man, whom I had engaged for two heifers, there 
and then ; and that, as I had no heifers, I must 
give him two bags of powder and two bars of 
lead, and do it at once, as he was going to inspan 
and trek to his State. I did so ; and then he 
ordered his people to drive, my horse Fleur to his 
horses, and he should take him also, and let me see the 
way the Bechuanas acted when they were wronged. 
I could do nothing but submit, which I did, with a 
very bad grace. My driver and his driver told me 
that the moment Sechele was gone the Mangwatos 
would unload my wagon and take everything, as I 
had gone through Machin’s country without first 
asking his leave ; and they begged me to inspan 
and go with Sechele. The road I had intended to 
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