elieved all the symptoms in
five or six hours. Four pills are a full dose for a man--one will
suffice for a woman. They received from our men the name of "rousers,"
from their efficacy in rousing up even those most prostrated. When their
operation is delayed, a dessert-spoonful of Epsom salts should be given.
Quinine after or during the operation of the pills, in large doses every
two or three hours, until deafness or cinchonism ensued, completed the
cure. The only cases in which, we found ourselves completely helpless,
were those in which obstinate vomiting ensued.

{2} The late Mr. Robson.

{3} In 1865, four years after these forebodings were penned, we received
intelligence that they had all come to pass. Sekeletu died in the
beginning of 1864--a civil war broke out about the succession to the
chieftainship; a large body of those opposed to the late chief's uncle,
Impololo, being regent, departed with their cattle to Lake Ngami; an
insurrection by the black tribes followed; Impololo was slain, and the
kingdom, of which, under an able sagacious mission, a vast deal might
have been made, has suffered the usual fate of African conquests. That
fate we deeply deplore; for, whatever other faults the Makololo might
justly be charged with, they did not belong to the class who buy and sell
each other, and the tribes who have succeeded them do.

{4} It was with sorrow that we learned by a letter from Mr. Moffat, in
1864, that poor Sekeletu was dead. As will be mentioned further on, men
were sent with us to bring up more medicine. They preferred to remain on
the Shire, and, as they were free men, we could do no more than try and
persuade them to hasten back to their chief with iodine and other
remedies. They took the parcel, but there being only two real Makololo
among them, these could neither return themselves alone or force their
attendants to leave a part of the country where they were independent,
and could support themselves with ease. Sekeletu, however, lived long
enough to receive and acknowledge goods to the value of 50 pounds, sent,
in lieu of those which remained in Tette, by Robert Moffat, jun., since
dead.

{5} A brother, we believe, of one who accompanied Burke and Willis in the
famous but unfortunate Australian Expedition.

{6} Genesis, chap. iii., verses 21 and 23, "make coats of skins, and
clothed them"--"sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the
ground" imply teaching. Vide Archbis