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proximate cause of Sebituane’s last illness, for it sometimes occa¬ 
sions pneumonia. Never having tried it, I cannot describe the 
pleasm:able effects it is said to produce, but the hachshish in use 
among the Turks is simply an extract of the same plant, and 
that, hke opium, produces different effects on different indivi¬ 
duals. Some view everything as if looking in tlirough the wide 
end of a telescope, and others, in passing over a straw, lift up 
theh feet as if about to cross the trunk of a tree. The Portuguese 
in Angola have such a belief in its deleterious effects that the use 
of it by a slave is considered a crime. 
November 28^A.—The inhabitants of the last of Kaonka’s 
villages, complained of being plundered by the independent 
Batoka. The tribes in front of this are regarded by the Makololo 
as in a state of rebellion. I promised to speak to the rebels on 
the subject, and enjoined on Kaonka the duty of giving them no 
offence. Accordhig to Sekeletu’s order,’ Kaonka gave us the 
tribute of maize-corn and ground-nuts, wliich would otherwise 
have gone to Linyanti. Tliis had been done at every village, and 
we thereby saved the people the trouble of a journey to the 
capital. My own Batoka had brought away such loads of pro¬ 
visions from their homes that we were in no want of food. 
After leaving Kaonka we travelled over an uninliabited, gently 
undulating, and most beautiful district, the border territory be¬ 
tween those who accept, and those who reject, the sway of the 
Makololo. The face of the country appears as if in long waves, 
miming north and south. There are no rivers, though water 
stands in pools in the hollows. We were now come into the 
country which my people all magnify as a perfect paradise. 
Sebituane was diiven from it by the Matebele. It suited him 
exactly for cattle, corn, and health. The soil is diy, and often 
a reddish sand; there are few trees, but fine large shady ones 
stand dotted here and there over the country where towns 
formerly stood. One of the fig family I measured, and found to 
be forty feet in circumference; the heart had been burned out, 
and some one had made a lodging in it, for we saw the remains of 
a bed and a fire. The sight of the open country, with the in¬ 
creased altitude we were attaining, was most refreshing to the 
spirits. Large game abound. We see in the distance buffaloes, 
elands, hartebeest, gnus, and elephants, all very tame, as no one 
