Chapter 8.
Effects Of Missionary Efforts - Belief In The Deity -
Ideas Of The Bakwains On Religion - Departure From Their Country
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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.
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