Chap. XXVI. 
A THUNDEESTORM. 
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CHAPTEK XXVL 
Departure from Linyanti — A thunderstorm — An act of genuine kindness 
— lit ted out a second time by the Makololo — Sail down the Leeambye — 
Sekote^s kotla and human skulls ; his grave adorned with elephants’ tusks—- 
Victoria Falls — Native names — Columns of vapour ~ Gigantic crack •— 
Wear of the rocks —- Shrines of the Barimo — “ The Pestle of the Gods” 
— Second visit to the falls —■ Island garden — Store-house Island —- 
— Native diviners An European diviner —■ Makololo foray ■— Marauder 
to be fined ■— Mambari — Makololo wish to stop Mambari slave-trading —■ 
Part with Sekeletu ■—■ Night travelling — River Lekone •—■ Ancient fresh¬ 
water lakes —- Formation of Lake Ngami — Native traditions — Drainage 
of the great valley — Native reports of the country to the north-—Maps 
“ Moyara’s village — Savage customs of the Batoka — A chain of trading- 
stations — Remedy against tsetse — The Well of Joy ” — First traces of 
trade with Europeans — Knocking out the front teeth —• Facetious expla¬ 
nation — Degradation of the Batoka ■—• Description of the travelling party 
— Cross the Unguesi — Geological formation — Ruins of a large town — 
Productions of the soil similar to those in Angola ■— Abundance of fruit. 
On the 3rd of Xoveinber we bade adieu to our friends at 
Linyanti, accompanied by Sekeletu and about 200 followers. 
We were ail fed at bis expense, and be took cattle for this 
purpose fr’om every station we came to. The principal men of 
the Makololo; Lebedle, Ntlarie, Nkwatlele, &c., were also of the 
party. We passed through the patch of the tsetse, which exists 
between Linyanti and Sesbeke, by night. The majority of the com¬ 
pany went on by daylight, in order to prepare our beds. Sekeletu 
and I, with about forty young men, waited outside the tsetse till 
dark. We then went forward, and about ten o’clock it became 
so pitchy dark, that both horses and men were completely blinded. 
The lightning spread over the sky, forming eight or ten branches 
at a time, in shape exactly like those of a tree. This, with gxeat 
volumes of sheet-lightning, enabled us at times to see the whole 
country. The intervals between the flaslies were so densely dark, 
as to convey the idea of stone-blindness. The horses trembled, 
cried out, and turned round, as if searching for each other, and 
every new flash revealed the men taking different directions, 
laughing, and stumbling against each other. The thunder was of 
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