Of the Soil - Instrument of Culture - The Tribute -
Distributed by the Chief - A warlike Demonstration -
Lechulatebe's Provocations - The Makololo determine to punish him -
The Bechuanas - Meaning of the Term - Three Divisions of the great
Family of South Africans.
Chapter 11.
Departure from Linyanti for Sesheke - Level Country - Ant-hills -
Wild Date-trees - Appearance of our Attendants on the March -
The Chief's Guard - They attempt to ride on Ox-back -
Vast Herds of the new Antelopes, Leches, and Nakongs -
The native way of hunting them - Reception at the Villages -
Presents of Beer and Milk - Eating with the Hand -
The Chief provides the Oxen for Slaughter - Social Mode of Eating -
The Sugar-cane - Sekeletu's novel Test of Character -
Cleanliness of Makololo Huts - Their Construction and Appearance -
The Beds - Cross the Leeambye - Aspect of this part of the Country -
The small Antelope Tianyane unknown in the South - Hunting on foot -
An Eland.
Chapter 12.
Procure Canoes and ascend the Leeambye - Beautiful Islands -
Winter Landscape - Industry and Skill of the Banyeti -
Rapids - Falls of Gonye - Tradition - Annual Inundations -
Fertility of the great Barotse Valley - Execution of two Conspirators -
The Slave-dealer's Stockade - Naliele, the Capital,
built on an artificial Mound - Santuru, a great Hunter -
The Barotse Method of commemorating any remarkable Event -
Better Treatment of Women - More religious Feeling - Belief in
a future State, and in the Existence of spiritual Beings - Gardens -
Fish, Fruit, and Game - Proceed to the Limits of the Barotse Country -
Sekeletu provides Rowers and a Herald - The River and Vicinity -
Hippopotamus-hunters - No healthy Location - Determine to go to Loanda -
Buffaloes, Elands, and Lions above Libonta - Interview with the Mambari -
Two Arabs from Zanzibar - Their Opinion of the Portuguese and the English
- Reach the Town of Ma-Sekeletu - Joy of the People
at the first Visit of their Chief - Return to Sesheke - Heathenism.
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.
