Chap. XXV. 
DEATH OF INFLUENTIAL MEN. 
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and lier people were extremely alarmed, and would have fled and 
left their cattle in a panic, had he not calmed their fears. Ben- 
Habib informed the uncle of Sekeletu that he could easily guide 
him thither, and he might get a large number of cattle without 
any difficulty. Tliis uncle advised Sekeletu to go; and, as the 
only greatness he knew, was imitation of his father’s deeds, he 
went, but was not so successful as was anticipated. Sebola 
Makwaia had fled on hearing of the approach of the Makololo; 
and, as the country is marshy and intersected in every dkection 
by rivers, they could not easily pursue her. They captured 
canoes, and, pursuing up different streams, came to a small lake 
called ^‘Shuia.” Having entered the Loangwa, flowing to the 
eastward, they found it advisable to return, as the natives in those 
parts became more warhke the further they went in that direc¬ 
tion. Before turning, the Arab pointed out an elevated ridge m 
the distance, and said to the Makololo, “ When we see that, we 
always know that we are only ten or fifteen days from the sea.” 
On seeing him afterwards, he informed me that on the same ridge, 
but much further to the north, the Banyassa Lived, and that the 
rivers flowed from it towards the S.W. He also confirmed the 
other Arab’s account that the Loapula, which he had crossed at 
the town of Cazembe, flowed in the same dfrection, and into the 
Leeambye. 
Several of the influential Makololo who had engaged in these 
marauding expeditions, had died before our arrival, and Nokwane 
had succumbed to his strange disease. Eamosantane had perished 
through vomiting blood from over-fatigue in the march, and 
Lerimo was affected by a leprosy pecuhar to the Barotse vaUey. 
In accordance with the advice of my Libonta friends, I did not 
fail to reprove ‘‘ my child Sekeletu ” for his marauding. This 
was not done in an angiy manner, for no good is ever achieved 
by fierce denunciations. Motibe, his father-in-law, said to me, 
“ Scold Ifirn much, but don’t let others hear you.” 
The Makololo expressed great satisfaction with the route we 
had opened up to the west, and soon after our arrival a picho ” 
was called, in order to discuss the question of removal to the 
Barotse valley, so that they might be nearer the market. Some 
of the older men objected to abandoning the line of defence 
afforded by the rivers Chobe and Zambesi, against thefr southern 
