To Save The Tribe From Breaking Up, By The Continual Loss Of Real
Makololo, It Ought At Once To Remove To The Healthy Batoka Highlands,
Near The Kafue.
Fully aware of this, Sekeletu remarked that all his
people, save two, were convinced that, if they remained in
The
lowlands, a few years would suffice to cut off all the real Makololo;
they came originally from the healthy South, near the confluence of
the Likwa and Namagari, where fever is almost unknown, and its
ravages had been as frightful among them here, as amongst Europeans
on the Coast. Sebituane's sister described its first appearance
among the tribe, after their settling in the Barotse Valley on the
Zambesi. Many of them were seized with a shivering sickness, as if
from excessive cold; they had never seen the like before. They made
great fires, and laid the shivering wretches down before them; but,
pile on wood as they might, they could not raise heat enough to drive
the cold out of the bodies of the sufferers, and they shivered on
till they died. But, though all preferred the highlands, they were
afraid to go there, lest the Matebele should come and rob them of
their much-loved cattle. Sebituane, with all his veterans, could not
withstand that enemy; and how could they be resisted, now that most
of the brave warriors were dead? The young men would break, and run
away the moment they saw the terrible Matebele, being as much afraid
of them as the black conquered tribes are of the Makololo.
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