onduct of English Gentlemen--Gordon
Cumming's hunting Adventures--A Word of Advice for young
Sportsmen--Bushwomen drawing Water--Ostrich--Silly Habit--
Paces--Eggs--Food.

Chapter 8. Effects of Missionary Efforts--Belief in the Deity--
Ideas of the Bakwains on Religion--Departure from their
Country--Salt-pans--Sour Curd--Nchokotsa--Bitter Waters--
Thirst suffered by the wild Animals--Wanton Cruelty in
Hunting--Ntwetwe--Mowana-trees--Their extraordinary Vitality--
The Mopane-tree--The Morala--The Bushmen--Their Superstitions--
Elephant-hunting--Superiority of civilized over barbarous
Sportsmen--The Chief Kaisa--His Fear of Responsibility--Beauty
of the Country at Unku--The Mohonono Bush--Severe Labor in
cutting our Way--Party seized with Fever--Escape of our
Cattle--Bakwain Mode of recapturing them--Vagaries of sick
Servants--Discovery of grape-bearing Vines--An Ant-eater--
Difficulty of passing through the Forest--Sickness of my
Companion--The Bushmen--Their Mode of destroying Lions--
Poisons--The solitary Hill--A picturesque Valley--Beauty of
the Country--Arrive at the Sanshureh River--The flooded
Prairies--A pontooning Expedition--A night Bivouac--The Chobe--
Arrive at the Village of Moremi--Surprise of the Makololo at
our sudden Appearance--Cross the Chobe on our way to Linyanti.

Chapter 9. Reception at Linyanti--The court Herald--Sekeletu
obtains the Chieftainship from his Sister--Mpepe's Plot--
Slave-trading Mambari--Their sudden Flight--Sekeletu narrowly
escapes Assassination--Execution of Mpepe--The Courts of Law--
Mode of trying Offenses--Sekeletu's Reason for not learning to
read the Bible--The Disposition made of the Wives of a
deceased Chief--Makololo Women--They work but little--Employ
Serfs--Their Drink, Dress, and Ornaments--Public Religious
Services in the Kotla--Unfavorable Associations of the place--
Native Doctors--Proposals to teach the Makololo to read--
Sekeletu's Present--Reason for accepting it--Trading in Ivory--
Accidental Fire--Presents for Sekeletu--Two Breeds of native
Cattle--Ornamenting the Cattle--The Women and the Looking-
glass--Mode of preparing the Skins of Oxen for Mantles and for
Shields--Throwing the Spear.

Chapter 10. The Fever--Its Symptoms--Remedies of the native
Doctors--Hospitality of Sekeletu and his People--One of their
Reasons for Polygamy--They cul