m what I have seen them do in elephant-hunting, I
believe, when they have room to make a run and discharge them with the
aid of the jerk of stopping, they can throw them between forty and fifty
yards. They give them an upward direction in the discharge, so that
they come down on the object with accelerated force. I saw a man who
in battle had received one in the shin; the excitement of the moment
prevented his feeling any pain; but, when the battle was over, the blade
was found to have split the bone, and become so impacted in the cleft
that no force could extract it. It was necessary to take an axe and
press the split bone asunder before the weapon could be taken out.

Chapter 10.

The Fever--Its Symptoms--Remedies of the native Doctors--Hospitality
of Sekeletu and his People--One of their Reasons for Polygamy--They
cultivate largely--The Makalaka or subject Tribes--Sebituane's
Policy respecting them--Their Affection for him--Products of the
Soil--Instrument of Culture--The Tribute--Distributed by the Chief--A
warlike Demonstration--Lechulatebe's Provocations--The Makololo
determine to punish him--The Bechuanas--Meaning of the Term--Three
Divisions of the great Family of South Africans.

On the 30th of May I was seized with fever for the first time. We
reached the town of Linyanti on the 23d; and as my habits were
suddenly changed from great exertion to comparative inactivity, at
the commencement of the cold season I suffered from a severe attack of
stoppage of the secretions, closely resembling a common cold. Warm baths
and drinks relieved me, and I had no idea but that I was now recovering
from the effects of a chill, got by leaving the warm wagon in the
evening in order to conduct family worship at my people's fire. But on
the 2d of June a relapse showed to the Makololo, who knew the complaint,
that my indisposition was no other than the fever, with which I have
since made a more intimate acquaintance. Cold east winds prevail at this
time; and as they come over the extensive flats inundated by the Chobe,
as well as many other districts where pools of rain-water are now drying
up, they may be supposed to be loaded with malaria and watery vapor, and
many cases of fever follow. The usual symptoms of stopped secretion
are manifested--shivering and a feeling of coldness, though the skin
is quite hot to the touch of another. The heat in the axilla, over the
heart and region of the stomach, was in my case 100 D