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and envious of our heavy loads of teeth, and the lots 
of money they bring us in the market. 
17^/l—I rested the oxen six days at Sechele’s, 
where grass and water were plentiful and good, and 
even so short a space of time has improved them 
much, and I am now at Lobatse, well on my way to 
Merico, where I expect to arrive to-morrow night. 
The old wagon has plagued me sadly ; she comes on 
creaking and groaning like a ship in a storm. I 
bought a muid of meal (180 lbs.) from a Boer whom 
I found trading oxen at Sechele’s, which lasted my 
ravenous retinue just eight days, and they are now 
crying out again from hunger : this is without taking 
into account three sheep, as well as fifteen or twenty 
gallons of amasi (thick sour milk), a very useful 
article, as it will make either cheese or butter. 
The German missionaries treated us most hospi¬ 
tably. We lived at their table the whole time we 
stayed at Sechele’s, and we thoroughly enjoyed the 
treat of a few French beans and potatoes, and ex¬ 
cellent bread. Sechele has had great losses amongst 
his cattle, and I got nothing out of him but two 
young oxen that he never used. He complained 
much of his poverty, and I believe he has but very 
little, and most of his people hungry. 
A hyena came last night, and took a fine heavy 
fat goat, which was tied by the leg to the wheel of 
the wagon I was sleeping in. Five Kaffirs were 
sleeping under the wagon, and two horses were tied 
to the hind wheel. There was instantly a regular 
