When Dissected,
The Cellular Tissue Seems Injected With Air, The Fat Is Green And Oily,
The Muscles Are Flabby, The Heart Is So Soft That The Finger
May Be Pushed Through It.
The antelope and buffalo, the zebra and goat,
are not affected by its bite; while to the ox, the horse, and the dog
it is certain death.
The mule and donkey are not troubled by it,
nor are sucking calves, while dogs, though fed upon milk, perish.
Such different effects produced upon animals whose nature is similar,
constitute one of the most curious phenomena in natural history.
Sebituane, who had heard of the approach of his visitors,
came more than a hundred miles to meet them. He was a tall, wiry,
coffee-and-milk colored man, of five-and-forty. His original home
was a thousand miles to the south, in the Bakwain country,
whence he had been driven by the Griquas a quarter of a century before.
He fled northward, fighting his way, sometimes reduced to the utmost straits,
but still keeping his people together. At length he crossed the desert,
and conquered the country around Lake Ngami; then having heard of white men
living on the west coast, he passed southwestward into the desert,
hoping to be able to open intercourse with them. There suffering
from the thirst, he came to a small well; the water was not sufficient
for his men and his cattle; one or the other must perish; he ordered the men
to drink, for if they survived they could fight for more cattle.
In the morning his cattle were all gone, and he returned to the north.
Here a long course of warfare awaited him, but in the end
he triumphed over his enemies, and established himself for a time
on the great river Zambesi.
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