he Lord."

Leaving his desolate home, Livingstone proceeded on his journey. On the
way he met Sechele, who was going, he said, to see the Queen of England.
Livingstone tried to dissuade him.

"Will not the Queen listen to me?" asked the chief.

"I believe she would listen, but the difficulty is to get to her."

"Well, I shall reach her."

And so they parted. Sechele actually made his way to the Cape, a
distance of a thousand miles, but could get no farther, and returned to
his own country. The remnants of the tribes who had formerly lived among
the Boers gathered around him, and he is now more powerful than ever.

It is slow traveling in Africa. Livingstone was almost a year in
accomplishing the 1500 miles between Cape Town and the country of the
Makololo. He found that Mamochisane, the daughter of Sebituane, had
voluntarily resigned the chieftainship to her younger brother, Sekeletu.
She wished to be married, she said, and have a family like other women.
The young chief Sekeletu was very friendly, but showed no disposition
to become a convert. He refused to learn to read the Bible, for fear it
might change his heart, and make him content with only one wife, like
Sechele. For his part he wanted at least five.

Some months were passed in this country, which is described as fertile
and well-cultivated--producing millet, maize, yams, sweet potatoes,
cassava, beans, pumpkins, water-melons, and the like. The sugar-cane
grows plentifully, but the people had never learned the process of
making sugar. They have great numbers of cattle, and game of various
species abounds. On one occasion a troop of eighty-one buffaloes defiled
slowly before their evening fire, while herds of splendid elands stood,
without fear, at two hundred yards' distance. The country is rather
unhealthy, from the mass of decayed vegetation exposed to the torrid
sun.

After due consideration, Livingstone resolved to make his way to Loanda,
a Portuguese settlement on the western coast. Sekeletu, anxious to open
a trade with the coast, appointed twenty-seven men to accompany the
traveler; and on the 11th of November, 1853, he set out on his journey.

Three or four small boxes contained all the baggage of the party. The
only provisions were a few pounds of biscuits, coffee, tea, and sugar;
their main reliance being upon the game which they expected to kill,
and, this failing, upon the proceeds of about ten dollars' worth of
beads. They also took with