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.
Chapter 15.
Message to Masiko, the Barotse Chief, regarding the Captives -- Navigation of the Leeambye -- Capabilities of this District -- The Leeba -- Flowers and Bees -- Buffalo-hunt -- Field for a Botanist -- Young Alligators; their savage
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