Expecting To Find Them Out, They Resolved To Watch Them
Night And Day.
They persevered for some days, thinking that at last
the water must come forth; but, notwithstanding their watchfulness,
kept alive by most tormenting thirst, the Bakwains were compelled to exclaim,
"Yak!
Yak! these are not men; let us go." Probably the Bushmen
had been subsisting on a store hidden under ground, which had eluded
the vigilance of their visitors.
Chapter 3.
Departure from Kolobeng, 1st June, 1849 - Companions - Our Route -
Abundance of Grass - Serotli, a Fountain in the Desert -
Mode of digging Wells - The Eland - Animals of the Desert -
The Hyaena - The Chief Sekomi - Dangers - The wandering Guide -
Cross Purposes - Slow Progress - Want of Water - Capture of a Bushwoman
- The Salt-pan at Nchokotsa - The Mirage - Reach the River Zouga -
The Quakers of Africa - Discovery of Lake Ngami, 1st August, 1849 -
Its Extent - Small Depth of Water - Position as the Reservoir
of a great River System - The Bamangwato and their Chief -
Desire to visit Sebituane, the Chief of the Makololo -
Refusal of Lechulatebe to furnish us with Guides -
Resolve to return to the Cape - The Banks of the Zouga - Pitfalls -
Trees of the District - Elephants - New Species of Antelope -
Fish in the Zouga.
Such was the desert which we were now preparing to cross -
a region formerly of terror to the Bechuanas from the numbers of serpents
which infested it and fed on the different kinds of mice,
and from the intense thirst which these people often endured
when their water-vessels were insufficient for the distances
to be traveled over before reaching the wells.
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