And As I Wish To Give The Reader A Fair Idea
Of The Other Side Of The Question As Well, It May Be Mentioned
That Motibe Parried The Imputation Of The Guilt Of Marauding
By Every Possible Subterfuge.
He would not admit that they had done wrong,
and laid the guilt of the wars in which the
Makololo had engaged
on the Boers, the Matebele, and every other tribe except his own.
When quite a youth, Motibe's family had been attacked by a party of Boers;
he hid himself in an ant-eater's hole, but was drawn out and thrashed
with a whip of hippopotamus hide. When enjoined to live in peace,
he would reply, "Teach the Boers to lay down their arms first."
Yet Motibe, on other occasions, seemed to feel the difference
between those who are Christians indeed and those who are so only in name.
In all our discussions we parted good friends.
Chapter 26.
Departure from Linyanti - A Thunder-storm - An Act of genuine Kindness -
Fitted out a second time by the Makololo - Sail down the Leeambye -
Sekote's Kotla and human Skulls; his Grave adorned with Elephants' Tusks -
Victoria Falls - Native Names - Columns of Vapor - Gigantic Crack -
Wear of the Rocks - Shrines of the Barimo - "The Pestle of the Gods" -
Second Visit to the Falls - Island Garden - Store-house Island -
Native Diviners - A European Diviner - Makololo Foray -
Marauder to be fined - Mambari - Makololo wish to stop
Mambari Slave-trading - Part with Sekeletu - Night Traveling -
River Lekone - Ancient fresh-water Lakes - Formation of Lake Ngami -
Native Traditions - Drainage of the Great Valley -
Native Reports of the Country to the North - Maps - Moyara's Village -
Savage Customs of the Batoka - A Chain of Trading Stations -
Remedy against Tsetse - "The Well of Joy" - First Traces of Trade
with Europeans - Knocking out the front Teeth - Facetious Explanation -
Degradation of the Batoka - Description of the Traveling Party -
Cross the Unguesi - Geological Formation - Ruins of a large Town -
Productions of the Soil similar to those in Angola - Abundance of Fruit.
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