Missionary Travels and Researches in South AfricaLivingstone, David
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
Livingstone, David
Missions -- South Africa; South Africa -- Description and travel
Chapter 7. Departure from the Country of the Bakwains--Large
black Ant--Land Tortoises--Diseases of wild Animals--Habits of
old Lions--Cowardice of the Lion--Its Dread of a Snare--Major
Vardon's Note--The Roar of the Lion resembles the Cry of the
Ostrich--Seldom attacks full-grown Animals--Buffaloes and
Lions--Mice--Serpents--Treading on one--Venomous and harmless
Varieties--Fascination--Sekomi's Ideas of Honesty--Ceremony of
the Sechu for Boys--The Boyale for young Women--Bamangwato
Hills--The Unicorn's Pass--The Country beyond--Grain--Scarcity
of Water--Honorable Conduct 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.
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