from right.  Mentioning my inability to pay the men who were to accompany me, he replied, “A man wishes, of course, to appear among his friends, after a long absence, with something of his own to show; the whole of the ivory in the country is yours, so you must take as much as you can, and Sekeletu will furnish men to carry it.”  These remarks of Mamire are quoted literally, in order to show the state of mind of the most influential in the tribe.  And as I wish to give the reader a fair idea of the other side of the question as well, it may be mentioned that Motibe parried the imputation of the guilt of marauding by every possible subterfuge.  He would not admit that they had done wrong, and laid the guilt of the wars in which the Makololo had engaged on the Boers, the Matebele, and every other tribe except his own.  When quite a youth, Motibe’s family had been attacked by a party of Boers; he hid himself in an ant-eater’s hole, but was drawn out and thrashed with a whip of hippopotamus hide.  When enjoined to live in peace, he would reply, “Teach the Boers to lay down their arms first.”  Yet Motibe, on other occasions, seemed to feel the difference between those who are Christians indeed and those who are so only in name.  In all our discussions we parted good friends.

Chapter 26.

Departure from Linyanti—­A Thunder-storm—­An Act of genuine Kindness—­ Fitted out a second time by the Makololo—­Sail down the Leeambye—­ Sekote’s Kotla and human Skulls; his Grave adorned with Elephants’ Tusks—­Victoria Falls—­Native Names—­Columns of Vapor—­Gigantic Crack—­ Wear of the Rocks—­Shrines of the Barimo—­“The Pestle of the Gods”—­ Second Visit to the Falls—­Island Garden—­Store-house Island—­ Native Diviners—­A European Diviner—­Makololo Foray—­Marauder to be fined—­Mambari—­Makololo wish to stop Mambari Slave-trading—­Part with Sekeletu—­Night Traveling—­River Lekone—­Ancient fresh-water Lakes—­Formation of Lake Ngami—­Native Traditions—­Drainage of the Great Valley—­Native Reports of the Country to the North—­Maps—­Moyara’s Village—­Savage Customs of the Batoka—­A Chain of Trading Stations—­Remedy against Tsetse—­“The Well of Joy”—­First Traces of Trade with Europeans—­Knocking out the front Teeth—­Facetious Explanation—­Degradation of the Batoka—­Description of the Traveling Party—­Cross the Unguesi—­Geological Formation—­Ruins of a large Town—­ Productions of the Soil similar to those in Angola—­Abundance of Fruit.

On the 3d of November we bade adieu to our friends at Linyanti, accompanied by Sekeletu and about 200 followers.  We were all fed at his expense, and he took cattle for this purpose from every station we came to.  The principal men of the Makololo, Lebeole, Ntlarie, Nkwatlele, etc., were also of the party.  We passed through the patch of the tsetse, which exists between Linyanti and Sesheke, by night.  The majority of the company went on by daylight, in order to prepare our beds.  Sekeletu