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THE NEW AFKICA 
On September 20th we passed a large creek, and were told 
that it is from here that a road straight through the sand-belts 
turns off to Indala’s, a fact we had not been made aware of as 
existing till now. During the next four miles we crossed a suc¬ 
cession of creeks middle deep, with the water from the river 
running outwards towards the lower lying sand-belts on the 
west with a fairly strong stream. Two miles further on we 
came to a place called Nokane, but for what reason it bore 
that name did not appear, as there were no villages or habita¬ 
tions there. It probably indicates the spot where the river sends 
small streams out westwards, such as we had just crossed. 
As I was marching in advance of the column, as usual, I sud¬ 
denly saw several fires surrounded by numbers of natives, and, 
walking in amongst them, found that they were the party from 
Moremi’s, over three hundred in number, who had killed the 
nine elephants mentioned previously. When the bearers came 
up, a spot was pointed out to us where we should camp, and, 
after we had eaten, a chief, who claimed to be Moremi’s brother, 
came over and informed us that he had been sent out to arrest 
a white man who had Matabele spies with him, and that it was 
his duty to declare us all his prisoners; therefore we would have 
to go to the lake under his charge. The manners of this chief 
and all his followers were marked by great courtesy. They were 
gentle and very solicitous of our welfare, sending us huge 
bundles of elephants’ biltong, hardly yet dry, as food, and 
attended to our comfort with all the hospitality at their dis¬ 
posal in the veldt. We informed the chief that we were already 
on our way to the lake to see the king, but without intention of 
spying out the country for Matabeles, or with any evil purposes. 
We were simply travellers. 
In conversation, it transpired that this party had been 
specially delegated from the lake to meet us, as Intuhe had 
sent runners to the king informing him of our advent, and, in 
fact, we found that Intuhe had orders to arrest us himself; but, 
finding we were willing to go to the lake without any fuss, he, 
with much forethought, allowed us to travel by ourselves, and 
