hile the husband
remained with us. In going down to the Fall village we met several of
the real Makololo. They are lighter in colour than the other tribes,
being of a rich warm brown; and they speak in a slow deliberate manner,
distinctly pronouncing every word. On reaching the village opposite
Kalai, we had an interview with the Makololo headman, Mashotlane: he came
to the shed in which we were seated, a little boy carrying his low three-
legged stool before him: on this he sat down with becoming dignity,
looked round him for a few seconds, then at us, and, saluting us with
"Rumela" (good morning, or hail), he gave us some boiled hippopotamus
meat, took a piece himself, and then handed the rest to his attendants,
who soon ate it up. He defended his forays on the ground that, when he
went to collect tribute, the Batoka attacked him, and killed some of his
attendants. The excuses made for their little wars are often the very
same as those made by Caesar in his "Commentaries." Few admit, like old
Moshobotwane, that they fought because they had the power, and a fair
prospect of conquering. We found here Pitsane, who had accompanied the
Doctor to St. Paul de Loanda. He had been sent by Sekeletu to purchase
three horses from a trading party of Griquas from Kuruman, who charged
nine large tusks apiece for very wretched animals.

In the evening, when all was still, one of our men, Takelang, fired his
musket, and cried out, "I am weeping for my wife: my court is desolate: I
have no home;" and then uttered a loud wail of anguish.

We proceeded next morning, 9th August, 1860, to see the Victoria Falls.
Mosi-oa-tunya is the Makololo name and means smoke sounding; Seongo or
Chongwe, meaning the Rainbow, or the place of the Rainbow, was the more
ancient term they bore. We embarked in canoes, belonging to Tuba Mokoro,
"smasher of canoes," an ominous name; but he alone, it seems, knew the
medicine which insures one against shipwreck in the rapids above the
Falls. For some miles the river was smooth and tranquil, and we glided
pleasantly over water clear as crystal, and past lovely islands densely
covered with a tropical vegetation. Noticeable among the many trees were
the lofty Hyphaene and Borassus palms; the graceful wild date-palm, with
its fruit in golden clusters, and the umbrageous mokononga, of cypress
form, with its dark-green leaves and scarlet fruit. Many flowers peeped
out near the water's edge, some entirely ne