Chapter 2.
The Boers - Their Treatment Of The Natives - Seizure Of Native Children
For Slaves - English Traders - Alarm Of The
Boers - Native Espionage -
The Tale of the Cannon - The Boers threaten Sechele -
In violation of Treaty, they stop English Traders
And expel Missionaries -
They attack the Bakwains - Their Mode of Fighting -
The Natives killed and the School-children carried into Slavery -
Destruction of English Property - African Housebuilding and Housekeeping -
Mode of Spending the Day - Scarcity of Food - Locusts - Edible Frogs -
Scavenger Beetle - Continued Hostility of the Boers - The Journey north -
Preparations - Fellow-travelers - The Kalahari Desert -
Vegetation - Watermelons - The Inhabitants - The Bushmen -
Their nomad Mode of Life - Appearance - The Bakalahari -
Their Love for Agriculture and for domestic Animals - Timid Character -
Mode of obtaining Water - Female Water-suckers - The Desert -
Water hidden.
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.
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