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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 --