He Was Sitting In A Covered Wagon,
Which Was Enclosed By A High Wall Of Close-Set Reeds; His Face
Was
only slightly disfigured by the thickening of the skin in parts,
where the leprosy had passed over it; and
The only peculiarity about
his hands was the extreme length of his finger-nails, which, however,
was nothing very much out of the way, as all the Makololo gentlemen
wear them uncommonly long. He has the quiet, unassuming manners of
his father, Sebituane, speaks distinctly, in a low pleasant voice,
and appears to be a sensible man, except perhaps on the subject of
his having been bewitched; and in this, when alluded to, he exhibits
as firm a belief as if it were his monomania. "Moriantsiane, my
aunt's husband, tried the bewitching medicine first on his wife, and
she is leprous, and so is her head-servant; then, seeing that it
succeeded, he gave me a stronger dose in the cooked flesh of a goat,
and I have had the disease ever since. They have lately killed
Ponwane, and, as you see, are now killing me." Ponwane had died of
fever a short time previously. Sekeletu asked us for medicine and
medical attendance, but we did not like to take the case out of the
hands of the female physician already employed, it being bad policy
to appear to undervalue any of the profession; and she, being anxious
to go on with her remedies, said "she had not given him up yet, but
would try for another month; if he was not cured by that time, then
she would hand him over to the white doctors." But we intended to
leave the country before a month was up; so Mamire, with others,
induced the old lady to suspend her treatment for a little.
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