The Cry of the Ostrich -
Seldom attacks full-grown Animals - Buffaloes and Lions -
Mice - Serpents - Treading on one - Venomous and harmless Varieties -
Fascination - Sekomi's Ideas of Honesty - Ceremony of the Sechu for Boys
- The Boyale for young Women - Bamangwato Hills - The Unicorn's Pass -
The Country beyond - Grain - Scarcity of Water - Honorable Conduct
of English Gentlemen - Gordon Cumming's hunting Adventures -
A Word of Advice for young Sportsmen - Bushwomen drawing Water -
Ostrich - Silly Habit - Paces - Eggs - Food.
Chapter 8.
Effects of Missionary Efforts - Belief in the Deity -
Ideas of the Bakwains on Religion - Departure from their Country -
Salt-pans - Sour Curd - Nchokotsa - Bitter Waters -
Thirst suffered by the wild Animals - Wanton Cruelty in Hunting -
Ntwetwe - Mowana-trees - Their extraordinary Vitality -
The Mopane-tree - The Morala - The Bushmen - Their Superstitions -
Elephant-hunting - Superiority of civilized over barbarous Sportsmen -
The Chief Kaisa - His Fear of Responsibility - Beauty of the Country
at Unku - The Mohonono Bush - Severe Labor in cutting our Way -
Party seized with Fever - Escape of our Cattle -
Bakwain Mode of recapturing them - Vagaries of sick Servants -
Discovery of grape-bearing Vines - An Ant-eater -
Difficulty of passing through the Forest - Sickness of my Companion -
The Bushmen - Their Mode of destroying Lions - Poisons -
The solitary Hill - A picturesque Valley - Beauty of the Country -
Arrive at the Sanshureh River - The flooded Prairies -
A pontooning Expedition - A night Bivouac - The Chobe -
Arrive at the Village of Moremi - Surprise of the Makololo
at our sudden Appearance - Cross the Chobe on our way to Linyanti.
Chapter 9.
Reception at Linyanti - The court Herald - Sekeletu obtains
the Chieftainship from his Sister - Mpepe's Plot - Slave-trading Mambari
- Their sudden Flight - Sekeletu narrowly escapes Assassination -
Execution of Mpepe - The Courts of Law - Mode of trying Offenses -
Sekeletu's Reason for not learning to read the Bible -
The Disposition made of the Wives of a deceased Chief -
Makololo Women - They work but little - Employ Serfs -
Their Drink, Dress, and Ornaments - Public Religious Services in the Kotla
- Unfavorable Associations of the place - Native Doctors -
Proposals to teach the Makololo to read - Sekeletu's Present -
Reason for accepting it - Trading in Ivory - Accidental Fire -
Presents for Sekeletu - Two Breeds of native Cattle -
Ornamenting the Cattle - The Women and the Looking-glass -
Mode of preparing the Skins of Oxen for Mantles and for Shields -
Throwing the Spear.
Chapter 10.
The Fever - Its Symptoms - Remedies of the native Doctors -
Hospitality of Sekeletu and his People - One of their Reasons for Polygamy
- They cultivate largely - The Makalaka or subject Tribes -
Sebituane's Policy respecting them - Their Affection for him -
Products of the Soil - Instrument of Culture - The Tribute -
Distributed by the Chief - A warlike Demonstration -
Lechulatebe's Provocations - The Makololo determine to punish him -
The Bechuanas - Meaning of the Term - Three Divisions of the great
Family of South Africans.
Chapter 11.
Departure from Linyanti for Sesheke - Level Country - Ant-hills -
Wild Date-trees - Appearance of our Attendants on the March -
The Chief's Guard - They attempt to ride on Ox-back -
Vast Herds of the new Antelopes, Leches, and Nakongs -
The native way of hunting them - Reception at the Villages -
Presents of Beer and Milk - Eating with the Hand -
The Chief provides the Oxen for Slaughter - Social Mode of Eating -
The Sugar-cane - Sekeletu's novel Test of Character -
Cleanliness of Makololo Huts - Their Construction and Appearance -
The Beds - Cross the Leeambye - Aspect of this part of the Country -
The small Antelope Tianyane unknown in the South - Hunting on foot -
An Eland.
Chapter 12.
Procure Canoes and ascend the Leeambye - Beautiful Islands -
Winter Landscape - Industry and Skill of the Banyeti -
Rapids - Falls of Gonye - Tradition - Annual Inundations -
Fertility of the great Barotse Valley - Execution of two Conspirators -
The Slave-dealer's Stockade - Naliele, the Capital,
built on an artificial Mound - Santuru, a great Hunter -
The Barotse Method of commemorating any remarkable Event -
Better Treatment of Women - More religious Feeling - Belief in
a future State, and in the Existence of spiritual Beings - Gardens -
Fish, Fruit, and Game - Proceed to the Limits of the Barotse Country -
Sekeletu provides Rowers and a Herald - The River and Vicinity -
Hippopotamus-hunters - No healthy Location - Determine to go to Loanda -
Buffaloes, Elands, and Lions above Libonta - Interview with the Mambari -
Two Arabs from Zanzibar - Their Opinion of the Portuguese and the English
- Reach the Town of Ma-Sekeletu - Joy of the People
at the first Visit of their Chief - Return to Sesheke - Heathenism.
Chapter 13.
Preliminary Arrangements for the Journey - A Picho - Twenty-seven Men
appointed to accompany me to the West - Eagerness of the Makololo
for direct Trade with the Coast - Effects of Fever - A Makololo Question
- The lost Journal - Reflections - The Outfit for the Journey -
11th November, 1853, leave Linyanti, and embark on the Chobe -
Dangerous Hippopotami - Banks of Chobe - Trees - The Course of the River
- The Island Mparia at the Confluence of the Chobe and the Leeambye -
Anecdote - Ascend the Leeambye - A Makalaka Mother defies the Authority
of the Makololo Head Man at Sesheke - Punishment of Thieves -
Observance of the new Moon - Public Addresses at Sesheke -
Attention of the People - Results - Proceed up the River -
The Fruit which yields `Nux vomica' - Other Fruits - The Rapids -
Birds - Fish - Hippopotami and their Young.
Chapter 14.
Increasing Beauty of the Country - Mode of spending the Day -
The People and the Falls of Gonye - A Makololo Foray - A second prevented,
and Captives delivered up - Politeness and Liberality of the People -
The Rains - Present of Oxen - The fugitive Barotse -
Sekobinyane's Misgovernment - Bee-eaters and other Birds -
Fresh-water Sponges - Current - Death from a Lion's Bite at Libonta -
Continued Kindness - Arrangements for spending the Night
during the Journey - Cooking and Washing - Abundance of animal Life -
Different Species of Birds - Water-fowl - Egyptian Geese -
Alligators - Narrow Escape of one of my Men - Superstitious Feelings
respecting the Alligator - Large Game - The most vulnerable Spot -
Gun Medicine - A Sunday - Birds of Song - Depravity; its Treatment -
Wild Fruits - Green Pigeons - Shoals of Fish - Hippopotami.
