He Came To The Shed In Which We Were Seated, A Little
Boy Carrying His Low Three-Legged Stool Before Him:
On this he sat
down with becoming dignity, looked round him for a few seconds, then
at us, and,
Saluting us with "Rumela" (good morning, or hail), he
gave us some boiled hippopotamus meat, took a piece himself, and then
handed the rest to his attendants, who soon ate it up. He defended
his forays on the ground that, when he went to collect tribute, the
Batoka attacked him, and killed some of his attendants. The excuses
made for their little wars are often the very same as those made by
Caesar in his "Commentaries." Few admit, like old Moshobotwane, that
they fought because they had the power, and a fair prospect of
conquering. We found here Pitsane, who had accompanied the Doctor to
St. Paul de Loanda. He had been sent by Sekeletu to purchase three
horses from a trading party of Griquas from Kuruman, who charged nine
large tusks apiece for very wretched animals.
In the evening, when all was still, one of our men, Takelang, fired
his musket, and cried out, "I am weeping for my wife: my court is
desolate: I have no home;" and then uttered a loud wail of anguish.
We proceeded next morning, 9th August, 1860, to see the Victoria
Falls. Mosi-oa-tunya is the Makololo name and means smoke sounding;
Seongo or Chongwe, meaning the Rainbow, or the place of the Rainbow,
was the more ancient term they bore.
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