Having waited a few days at Sesheke till the horses which we had left at Linyanti should arrive, we proceeded to that town, and found the wagon, and every thing we had left in November, 1853, perfectly safe.  A grand meeting of all the people was called to receive our report, and the articles which had been sent by the governor and merchants of Loanda.  I explained that none of these were my property, but that they were sent to show the friendly feelings of the white men, and their eagerness to enter into commercial relations with the Makololo.  I then requested my companions to give a true account of what they had seen.  The wonderful things lost nothing in the telling, the climax always being that they had finished the whole world, and had turned only when there was no more land.  One glib old gentleman asked, “Then you reached Ma Robert (Mrs. L.)?” They were obliged to confess that she lived a little beyond the world.  The presents were received with expressions of great satisfaction and delight; and on Sunday, when Sekeletu made his appearance at church in his uniform, it attracted more attention than the sermon; and the kind expressions they made use of respecting myself were so very flattering that I felt inclined to shut my eyes.  Their private opinion must have tallied with their public report, for I very soon received offers from volunteers to accompany me to the east coast.  They said they wished to be able to return and relate strange things like my recent companions; and Sekeletu immediately made arrangements with the Arab Ben Habib to conduct a fresh party with a load of ivory to Loanda.  These, he said, must go with him and learn to trade:  they were not to have any thing to do in the disposal of the ivory, but simply look and learn.  My companions were to remain and rest themselves, and then return to Loanda when the others had come home.  Sekeletu consulted me as to sending presents back to the governor and merchants of Loanda, but, not possessing much confidence in this Arab, I advised him to send a present by Pitsane, as he knew who ought to receive it.

Since my arrival in England, information has been received from Mr. Gabriel that this party had arrived on the west coast, but that the ivory had been disposed of to some Portuguese merchants in the interior, and the men had been obliged to carry it down to Loanda.  They had not been introduced to Mr. Gabriel, but that gentleman, having learned that they were in the city, went to them, and pronounced the names Pitsane, Mashauana, when all started up and crowded round him.  When Mr. G. obtained an interpreter, he learned that they had been ordered by Sekeletu to be sure and go to my brother, as he termed him.  Mr. G. behaved in the same liberal manner as he had done to my companions, and they departed for their distant home after bidding him a formal and affectionate adieu.