to salute him, "I am dead. I am not
here. I belong to another world, and should stink if I came among you."

All the sad news we had previously heard, of the disastrous results which
followed the attempt of a party of missionaries, under the Rev. H.
Helmore, to plant the gospel at Linyanti, were here fully confirmed.
Several of the missionaries and their native attendants, from Kuruman,
had succumbed to the fever, and the survivors had retired some weeks
before our arrival. We remained the whole of the 7th beside the village
of the old Batoka chief, Moshobotwane, the stoutest man we have seen in
Africa. The cause of our delay here was a severe attack of fever in
Charles Livingstone. He took a dose of our fever pills; was better on
the 8th, and marched three hours; then on the 9th marched eight miles to
the Great Falls, and spent the rest of the day in the fatiguing exercise
of sight-seeing. We were in the very same valley as Linyanti, and this
was the same fever which treated, or rather maltreated, with only a
little Dover's powder, proved so fatal to poor Helmore; the symptoms,
too, were identical with those afterwards described by non-medical
persons as those of poison.

We gave Moshobotwane a present, and a pretty plain exposition of what we
thought of his bloody forays among his Batoka brethren. A scolding does
most good to the recipient, when put alongside some obliging act. He
certainly did not take it ill, as was evident from what he gave us in
return; which consisted of a liberal supply of meal, milk, and an ox. He
has a large herd of cattle, and a tract of fine pasture-land on the
beautiful stream Lekone. A home-feeling comes over one, even in the
interior of Africa, at seeing once more cattle grazing peacefully in the
meadows. The tsetse inhabits the trees which bound the pasture-land on
the west; so, should the herdsman forget his duty, the cattle straying
might be entirely lost. The women of this village were more numerous
than the men, the result of the chief's marauding. The Batoko wife of
Sima came up from the Falls, to welcome her husband back, bringing a
present of the best fruits of the country. Her husband was the only one
of the party who had brought a wife from Tette, namely, the girl whom he
obtained from Chisaka for his feats of dancing. According to our ideas,
his first wife could hardly have been pleased at seeing the second and
younger one; but she took her away home with her, w