us, in the event of our getting, on our return, past the
rapids near Tette, not to bring us to Sesheke, but to send forward a
messenger, and he with the whole tribe would come to us. Dr. Kirk being
of the same age, Sekeletu was particularly anxious that he should come
and live with him. He said that he would cut off a section of the
country for the special use of the English; and on being told that in all
probability their descendants would cause disturbance in his country, he
replied, "These would be only domestic feuds, and of no importance." The
great extent of uncultivated land on the cool and now unpeopled highlands
has but to be seen to convince the spectator how much room there is, and
to spare, for a vastly greater population than ever, in our day, can be
congregated there.

On the last occasion of our holding Divine service at Sesheke, the men
were invited to converse on the subject on which they had been addressed.
So many of them had died since we were here before, that not much
probability existed of our all meeting again, and this had naturally led
to the subject of a future state. They replied that they did not wish to
offend the speaker, but they could not believe that all the dead would
rise again: "Can those who have been killed in the field and devoured by
the vultures; or those who have been eaten by the hyenas or lions; or
those who have been tossed into the river, and eaten by more than one
crocodile,--can they all be raised again to life?" They were told that
men could take a leaden bullet, change it into a salt (acetate of lead),
which could be dissolved as completely in water as our bodies in the
stomachs of animals, and then reconvert it into lead; or that the bullet
could be transformed into the red and white paint of our wagons, and
again be reconverted into the original lead; and that if men exactly like
themselves could do so much, how much more could He do who has made the
eye to see, and the ear to hear! We added, however, that we believed in
a resurrection, not because we understood how it would be brought about,
but because our Heavenly Father assured us of it in His Book. The
reference to the truth of the Book and its Author seems always to have
more influence on the native mind than the cleverness of the
illustration. The knowledge of the people is scanty, but their reasoning
is generally clear as far as their information goes.

We left Sesheke on the 17th September, 1860, con