Departure from Linyanti--A Thunder-storm--An Act of genuine Kindness-- Fitted out a second time by the Makololo--Sail down the Leeambye-- Sekote's Kotla and human Skulls; his Grave adorned with Elephants' Tusks--Victoria Falls--Native Names--Columns of Vapor--Gigantic Crack-- Wear of the Rocks--Shrines of the Barimo--"The Pestle of the Gods"-- Second Visit to the Falls--Island Garden--Store-house Island-- Native Diviners--A European Diviner--Makololo Foray--Marauder to be fined--Mambari--Makololo wish to stop Mambari Slave-trading--Part with Sekeletu--Night Traveling--River Lekone--Ancient fresh-water Lakes--Formation of Lake Ngami--Native Traditions--Drainage of the Great Valley--Native Reports of the Country to the North--Maps--Moyara's Village--Savage Customs of the Batoka--A Chain of Trading Stations--Remedy against Tsetse--"The Well of Joy"--First Traces of Trade with Europeans--Knocking out the front Teeth--Facetious Explanation--Degradation of the Batoka--Description of the Traveling Party--Cross the Unguesi--Geological Formation--Ruins of a large Town-- Productions of the Soil similar to those in Angola--Abundance of Fruit.
On the 3d of November we bade adieu to our friends at Linyanti, accompanied by Sekeletu and about 200 followers. We were all fed at his expense, and he took cattle for this purpose from every station we came to. The principal men of the Makololo, Lebeole, Ntlarie, Nkwatlele, etc., were also of the party. We passed through the patch of the tsetse, which exists between Linyanti and Sesheke, by night. The majority of the company went on by daylight, in order to prepare our beds. Sekeletu and I, with about forty young men, waited outside the tsetse till dark. We then went forward, and about ten o'clock it became so pitchy dark that both horses and men were completely blinded. The lightning spread over the sky, forming eight or ten branches at a time, in shape exactly like those of a tree. This, with great volumes of sheet-lightning, enabled us at times to see the whole country. The intervals between the flashes were so densely dark as to convey the idea of stone-blindness. The horses trembled, cried out, and turned round, as if searching for each other, and every new flash revealed the men taking different directions, laughing, and stumbling against each other. The thunder was of that tremendously loud kind only to be heard in tropical countries, and which friends from India have assured me is louder in Africa than any they have ever heard elsewhere. Then came a pelting rain, which completed our confusion. After the intense heat of the day, we soon felt miserably cold, and turned aside to a fire we saw in the distance. This had been made by some people on their march; for this path is seldom without numbers of strangers passing to and from the capital. My clothing having gone on, I lay down on the cold ground, expecting to spend a miserable night; but Sekeletu kindly covered me with his own blanket, and lay uncovered himself. I was much affected by this act of genuine kindness. If such men must perish by the advance of civilization, as certain races of animals do before others, it is a pity. God grant that ere this time comes they may receive that Gospel which is a solace for the soul in death!