Chapter 13.
Preliminary Arrangements For The Journey - A Picho - Twenty-Seven Men
Appointed To Accompany Me To The West - Eagerness
Of the Makololo
for direct Trade with the Coast - Effects of Fever - A Makololo Question
- The lost Journal - Reflections - The
Outfit for the Journey -
11th November, 1853, leave Linyanti, and embark on the Chobe -
Dangerous Hippopotami - Banks of Chobe - Trees - The Course of the River
- The Island Mparia at the Confluence of the Chobe and the Leeambye -
Anecdote - Ascend the Leeambye - A Makalaka Mother defies the Authority
of the Makololo Head Man at Sesheke - Punishment of Thieves -
Observance of the new Moon - Public Addresses at Sesheke -
Attention of the People - Results - Proceed up the River -
The Fruit which yields `Nux vomica' - Other Fruits - The Rapids -
Birds - Fish - Hippopotami and their Young.
Chapter 14.
Increasing Beauty of the Country - Mode of spending the Day -
The People and the Falls of Gonye - A Makololo Foray - A second prevented,
and Captives delivered up - Politeness and Liberality of the People -
The Rains - Present of Oxen - The fugitive Barotse -
Sekobinyane's Misgovernment - Bee-eaters and other Birds -
Fresh-water Sponges - Current - Death from a Lion's Bite at Libonta -
Continued Kindness - Arrangements for spending the Night
during the Journey - Cooking and Washing - Abundance of animal Life -
Different Species of Birds - Water-fowl - Egyptian Geese -
Alligators - Narrow Escape of one of my Men - Superstitious Feelings
respecting the Alligator - Large Game - The most vulnerable Spot -
Gun Medicine - A Sunday - Birds of Song - Depravity; its Treatment -
Wild Fruits - Green Pigeons - Shoals of Fish - Hippopotami.
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