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.
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