Chapter 6. Kuruman - Its Fine Fountain - Vegetation Of The District - Remains Of Ancient Forests - Vegetable Poison - The Bible Translated By

Mr. Moffat - Capabilities of the Language - Christianity among the Natives - The Missionaries should extend their Labors more beyond the Cape

Colony - Model Christians - Disgraceful Attack of the Boers on the Bakwains - Letter from Sechele - Details of the Attack - Numbers of School-children carried away into Slavery - Destruction of House and Property at Kolobeng - The Boers vow Vengeance against me - Consequent Difficulty of getting Servants to accompany me on my Journey - Start in November, 1852 - Meet Sechele on his way to England to obtain Redress from the Queen - He is unable to proceed beyond the Cape - Meet Mr. Macabe on his Return from Lake Ngami - The hot Wind of the Desert - Electric State of the Atmosphere - Flock of Swifts - Reach Litubaruba - The Cave Lepelole - Superstitions regarding it - Impoverished State of the Bakwains - Retaliation on the Boers - Slavery - Attachment of the Bechuanas to Children - Hydrophobia unknown - Diseases of the Bakwains few in number - Yearly Epidemics - Hasty Burials - Ophthalmia - Native Doctors - Knowledge of Surgery at a very low Ebb - Little Attendance given to Women at their Confinements - The "Child Medicine" - Salubrity of the Climate well adapted for Invalids suffering from pulmonary Complaints.

Chapter 7. Departure from the Country of the Bakwains - Large black Ant - Land Tortoises - Diseases of wild Animals - Habits of old Lions - Cowardice of the Lion - Its Dread of a Snare - Major Vardon's Note - The Roar of the Lion resembles the Cry of the Ostrich - Seldom attacks full-grown Animals - Buffaloes and Lions - Mice - Serpents - Treading on one - Venomous and harmless Varieties - Fascination - Sekomi's Ideas of Honesty - Ceremony of the Sechu for Boys - The Boyale for young Women - Bamangwato Hills - The Unicorn's Pass - The Country beyond - Grain - Scarcity of Water - Honorable Conduct of English Gentlemen - Gordon Cumming's hunting Adventures - A Word of Advice for young Sportsmen - Bushwomen drawing Water - Ostrich - Silly Habit - Paces - Eggs - Food.

Chapter 8. Effects of Missionary Efforts - Belief in the Deity - Ideas of the Bakwains on Religion - Departure from their Country - Salt-pans - Sour Curd - Nchokotsa - Bitter Waters - Thirst suffered by the wild Animals - Wanton Cruelty in Hunting - Ntwetwe - Mowana-trees - Their extraordinary Vitality - The Mopane-tree - The Morala - The Bushmen - Their Superstitions - Elephant-hunting - Superiority of civilized over barbarous Sportsmen - The Chief Kaisa - His Fear of Responsibility - Beauty of the Country at Unku - The Mohonono Bush - Severe Labor in cutting our Way - Party seized with Fever - Escape of our Cattle - Bakwain Mode of recapturing them - Vagaries of sick Servants - Discovery of grape-bearing Vines - An Ant-eater - Difficulty of passing through the Forest - Sickness of my Companion - The Bushmen - Their Mode of destroying Lions - Poisons - The solitary Hill - A picturesque Valley - Beauty of the Country - Arrive at the Sanshureh River - The flooded Prairies - A pontooning Expedition - A night Bivouac - The Chobe - Arrive at the Village of Moremi - Surprise of the Makololo at our sudden Appearance - Cross the Chobe on our way to Linyanti.

Chapter 9. Reception at Linyanti - The court Herald - Sekeletu obtains the Chieftainship from his Sister - Mpepe's Plot - Slave-trading Mambari - Their sudden Flight - Sekeletu narrowly escapes Assassination - Execution of Mpepe - The Courts of Law - Mode of trying Offenses - Sekeletu's Reason for not learning to read the Bible - The Disposition made of the Wives of a deceased Chief - Makololo Women - They work but little - Employ Serfs - Their Drink, Dress, and Ornaments - Public Religious Services in the Kotla - Unfavorable Associations of the place - Native Doctors - Proposals to teach the Makololo to read - Sekeletu's Present - Reason for accepting it - Trading in Ivory - Accidental Fire - Presents for Sekeletu - Two Breeds of native Cattle - Ornamenting the Cattle - The Women and the Looking-glass - Mode of preparing the Skins of Oxen for Mantles and for Shields - Throwing the Spear.

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