Our Messenger Returned On The Evening Of The Following Day With "You
Speak Truly," Says Sekeletu, "The Disease Is Old, Come On At Once, Do
Not Sleep In The Path; For I Am Greatly Desirous (Tlologelecoe) To
See The Doctor."
After Mochokotsa left us, we met some of Mokompa's men bringing back
the ivory, as horses were preferred to the West-Coast goods.
They
were the bearers of instructions to Mokompa, and as these
instructions illustrate the government of people who have learned
scarcely anything from Europeans, they are inserted, though otherwise
of no importance. Mashotlane had not behaved so civilly to Mr.
Baldwin as Sekeletu had ordered him to do to all Englishmen. He had
been very uncivil to the messengers sent by Moselekatse with letters
from Mr. Moffat, treated them as spies, and would not land to take
the bag until they moved off. On our speaking to him about this, he
justified his conduct on the plea that he was set at the Falls for
the very purpose of watching these, their natural enemies; and how
was he to know that they had been sent by Mr. Moffat? Our men
thereupon reported at head-quarters that Mashotlane had cursed the
Doctor. The instructions to Mokompa, from Sekeletu, were to "go and
tell Mashotlane that he had offended greatly. He had not cursed
Monare (Dr. Livingstone) but Sebituane, as Monare was now in the
place of Sebituane, and he reverenced him as he had done his father.
Any fine taken from Mr. Baldwin was to be returned at once, as he was
not a Boer but an Englishman.
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