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 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.

   Chapter 11. Departure from Linyanti for Sesheke—Level
   Country—Ant-hills—Wild Date-trees—Appearance of our
   Attendants on the March—The Chief's Guard—They attempt to
   ride on Ox-back—Vast Herds of the new Antelopes, Leches, and
   Nakongs—The native way of hunting them—Reception at the
   Villages—Presents of Beer and Milk—Eating with the Hand—The
   Chief provides the Oxen for Slaughter—Social Mode of Eating—
   The Sugar-cane—Sekeletu's novel Test of Character—
   Cleanliness of Makololo Huts—Their Construction and
   Appearance—The Beds—Cross the Leeambye—Aspect of this part
   of the Country—The small Antelope Tianyane unknown in the
   South—Hunting on foot—An Eland.

   Chapter 12. Procure Canoes and ascend the Leeambye—Beautiful
   Islands—Winter Landscape—Industry and Skill of the Banyeti—
   Rapids—Falls of Gonye—Tradition—Annual Inundations—
   Fertility of the great Barotse Valley—Execution of two
   Conspirators—The Slave-dealer's Stockade—Naliele, the
   Capital, built on an artificial Mound—Santuru, a great
   Hunter—The Barotse Method of commemorating any remarkable
   Event—Better Treatment of Women—More religious Feeling—
   Belief in a future State, and in the Existence of spiritual
   Beings—Gardens—Fish, Fruit, and Game—Proceed to the Limits
   of the Barotse Country—Sekeletu provides Rowers and a Herald—
   The River and Vicinity—Hippopotamus-hunters—No healthy
   Location—Determine to go to Loanda—Buffaloes, Elands, and
   Lions above Libonta—Interview with the Mambari—Two Arabs
   from Zanzibar—Their Opinion of the Portuguese and the English
   —Reach the Town of Ma-Sekeletu—Joy of the People at the
   first Visit of their Chief—Return to Sesheke—Heathenism.

   Chapter 13. Preliminary Arrangements for the Journey—A Picho—
   Twenty-seven Men appointed to accompany me to the West—
   Eagerness of the Makololo for direct Trade with the Coast—
   Effects of Fever—A Makololo Question—The lost Journal—
   Reflections—The Outfit for the Journey—11th November, 1853,
   leave Linyanti, and embark on the Chobe—Dangerous
   Hippopotami—Banks of Chobe—Trees—The Course of the River—
   The Island Mparia at the Confluence of the Chobe and the
   Leeambye—Anecdote—Ascend the Leeambye—A Makalaka Mother
   defies the Authority of the Makololo Head Man at Sesheke—
   Punishment of Thieves—Observance of the new Moon—Public
   Addresses at Sesheke—Attention of the People—Results—
   Proceed up the River—The Fruit which yields 'Nux vomica'—
   Other Fruits—The Rapids—Birds—Fish—Hippopotami and their
   Young.

   Chapter 14. Increasing Beauty of the Country—Mode of spending
   the Day—The People and the Falls of Gonye—A Makololo Foray—
   A second prevented, and Captives delivered up—Politeness and
   Liberality of the People—The Rains—Present of Oxen—The
   fugitive Barotse—Sekobinyane's Misgovernment—Bee-eaters and
   other Birds—Fresh-water Sponges—Current—Death from a Lion's
   Bite at Libonta—Continued Kindness—Arrangements for spending
   the Night during the Journey—Cooking and Washing—Abundance
   of animal Life—Different Species of Birds—Water-fowl—
   Egyptian Geese—Alligators—Narrow Escape of one of my Men—
   Superstitious Feelings respecting the Alligator—Large Game—
   The most vulnerable Spot—Gun Medicine—A Sunday—Birds of
   Song—Depravity; its Treatment—Wild Fruits—Green Pigeons—
   Shoals of Fish—Hippopotami.

   Chapter 15. Message to Masiko, the Barotse Chief, regarding
   the Captives—Navigation of the Leeambye—Capabilities of this
   District—The Leeba—Flowers and Bees—Buffalo-hunt—Field for
   a Botanist—Young Alligators; their savage Nature—Suspicion
   of the Balonda—Sekelenke's Present—A Man and his two Wives—
   Hunters—Message from Manenko, a female Chief—Mambari
   Traders—A Dream—Sheakondo and his People—Teeth-filing—
   Desire for Butter—Interview with Nyamoana, another female
   Chief—Court Etiquette—Hair versus Wool—Increase of
   Superstition—Arrival of Manenko; her Appearance and Husband—
   Mode of Salutation—Anklets—Embassy, with a Present from
   Masiko—Roast Beef—Manioc—Magic Lantern—Manenko an
   accomplished Scold:  compels us to wait—Unsuccessful Zebra-
   hunt.

   Chapter 16. Nyamoana's Present—Charms—Manenko's pedestrian
   Powers—An Idol—Balonda Arms—Rain—Hunger—Palisades—Dense
   Forests—Artificial Beehives—Mushrooms—Villagers lend the
   Roofs of their Houses—Divination and Idols—Manenko's Whims—
   A night Alarm—Shinte's Messengers and Present—The proper
   Way to approach a Village—A Merman—Enter Shinte's Town:  its
   Appearance—Meet two half-caste Slave-traders—The Makololo
   scorn them—The Balonda real Negroes—Grand Reception from
   Shinte—His Kotla—Ceremony of Introduction—The Orators—
   Women—Musicians and Musical Instruments—A disagreeable
   Request—Private Interviews with Shinte—Give him an Ox—
   Fertility of Soil—Manenko's new Hut—Conversation with
   Shinte—Kolimbota's Proposal—Balonda's Punctiliousness—
   Selling Children—Kidnapping—Shinte's Offer of a Slave—Magic
   Lantern—Alarm of Women—Delay—Sambanza returns intoxicated—
   The last and greatest Proof of Shinte's Friendship.

   Chapter 17. Leave Shinte—Manioc Gardens—Mode of preparing
   the poisonous kind—Its general Use—Presents of Food—
   Punctiliousness of the Balonda—Their Idols and Superstition—
   Dress of the Balonda—Villages beyond Lonaje—Cazembe—Our
   Guides and the Makololo—Night Rains—Inquiries for English
   cotton Goods—Intemese's Fiction—Visit from an old Man—
   Theft—Industry of our Guide—Loss of Pontoon—Plains covered
   with Water—Affection of the Balonda for their Mothers—A
   Night on an Island—The Grass on the Plains—Source of the
   Rivers—Loan of the Roofs of Huts—A Halt—Fertility of the
   Country through which the Lokalueje flows—Omnivorous Fish—
   Natives' Mode of catching them—The Village of a Half-brother
   of Katema, his Speech and Present—Our