It Is Far Easier To Travel
Than To Write About It.
I intended on going to Africa to continue my studies;
but as I could not brook the idea of
Simply entering into other men's labors
made ready to my hands, I entailed on myself, in addition to teaching,
manual labor in building and other handicraft work, which made me generally
as much exhausted and unfit for study in the evenings as ever I had been
when a cotton-spinner. The want of time for self-improvement
was the only source of regret that I experienced during my African career.
The reader, remembering this, will make allowances for the mere
gropings for light of a student who has the vanity to think himself
"not yet too old to learn". More precise information on several subjects
has necessarily been omitted in a popular work like the present;
but I hope to give such details to the scientific reader
through some other channel.
Chapter 1.
The Bakwain Country - Study of the Language - Native Ideas
regarding Comets - Mabotsa Station - A Lion Encounter -
Virus of the Teeth of Lions - Names of the Bechuana Tribes -
Sechele - His Ancestors - Obtains the Chieftainship -
His Marriage and Government - The Kotla - First public Religious Services
- Sechele's Questions - He Learns to Read - Novel mode
for Converting his Tribe - Surprise at their Indifference -
Polygamy - Baptism of Sechele - Opposition of the Natives -
Purchase Land at Chonuane - Relations with the People -
Their Intelligence - Prolonged Drought - Consequent Trials -
Rain-medicine - God's Word blamed - Native Reasoning - Rain-maker -
Dispute between Rain Doctor and Medical Doctor - The Hunting Hopo -
Salt or animal Food a necessary of Life - Duties of a Missionary.
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