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Indala takes our goods—No food—Palaver with our boys—Discover a 
horse on the island—Indala’s treachery and murder of Van Zyl—Our 
brave boys—Women bring us food at night—Obstacles to our crossing 
the river—Consider what to do—Hammar tries to shoot Indala— 
Native juggling—The bar of lead tradition—Franz lied somewhere . 226 
CHAPTER XIX 
The Boers on the trek to Damaraland settle accounts with a native chief 
who molested one of the party—Our party to a man refuse to accom¬ 
pany me across the Okovanga when the canoe arrives—Paul volunteers 
—Strange people visible on the opposite shore—Mombokooshus ferry 
us over—The expedition follows with glee—Canoe men display dex¬ 
terity in sport—People from Lake Ngami—Advise us to go to the 
lake—Intuhe has dispute with Debabe, Indala’s nephew—Indala the 
wizard levies tribute from the lake people—We are under suspicion of 
being spies, and are obliged to go to the lake—Breaking-in pack-oxen 
—I give farewell advice to Indala—About the Mombokooshus . 237 
CHAPTER XX 
We march down the Okovanga—Grand country—Opportunities for settlers 
—Hammar gets parted from the expedition, by accident—Natives 
fishing in the Okovanga swamps—Atmospheric temperature rising— 
In Moremi’s territory—Mosquitoes . . . . . 256 
CHAPTER XXI 
Cross the Ngamasero or Qaudum river—Hear of white man taken prisoner 
by Moremi’s people—Makubas *'confirm [the overflow of water from 
Cubango to Chobe—No game—Short of food—Shoot crocodile—Vast 
swamps of the Cubango—Bush buck dangerous—Take quinine pro- 
phylactically—Cool east wind—The Waacht een beetje thorn (Wait a 
bit thorn)—Meet native elephant hunter—Almost step on leopard— 
We [walk into hunter’s camp and are made prisoners—Elephant’s 
biltong—Morning devotions ..... 0 263 
CHAPTER XXII 
Lose our last goats in the enormous swamps on the route—Native with 
ostrich feathers—Scene of battle between Matabele and Moremi’s 
people—Invasion of the Matabele—Da Tapo the Brave repulses 
Matabele—Matabele attack the Batowaana—Their strongholds—The 
island in the reeds—Chief Tschukoorroo beats slave for theft—Long 
walk across a sand-belt—Large herds of cattle and much milk— 
Malarial germs supposed to be in milk—Our surprise at finding- 
well-dressed natives—Reach the lake—Palaver with suspicious chiefs 
—Natives wish to murder us in cold blood during the night, but 
