fricans, that, had there existed a market for ivory, its value
would have become known, and even that on the graves of the chiefs would
not have been safe.

When about to leave Moyara on the 25th, he brought a root which, when
pounded and sprinkled over the oxen, is believed to disgust the tsetse,
so that it flies off without sucking the blood. He promised to show me
the plant or tree if I would give him an ox; but, as we were traveling,
and could not afford the time required for the experiment, so as not to
be cheated (as I had too often been by my medical friends), I deferred
the investigation till I returned. It is probably but an evanescent
remedy, and capable of rendering the cattle safe during one night only.
Moyara is now quite a dependent of the Makololo, and my new party, not
being thoroughly drilled, forced him to carry a tusk for them. When I
relieved him, he poured forth a shower of thanks at being allowed to go
back to sleep beneath his skulls.

Next day we came to Namilanga, or "The Well of Joy". It is a small well
dug beneath a very large fig-tree, the shade of which renders the water
delightfully cool. The temperature through the day was 104 Deg. in the
shade and 94 Deg. after sunset, but the air was not at all oppressive.
This well received its name from the fact that, in former times,
marauding parties, in returning with cattle, sat down here and were
regaled with boyaloa, music, and the lullilooing of the women from the
adjacent towns.

All the surrounding country was formerly densely peopled, though now
desolate and still. The old head man of the place told us that his
father once went to Bambala, where white traders lived, when our
informant was a child, and returned when he had become a boy of about
ten years. He went again, and returned when it was time to knock out
his son's teeth. As that takes place at the age of puberty, he must have
spent at least five years in each journey. He added that many who went
there never returned, because they liked that country better than this.
They had even forsaken their wives and children; and children had been
so enticed and flattered by the finery bestowed upon them there, that
they had disowned their parents and adopted others. The place to which
they had gone, which they named Bambala, was probably Dambarari, which
was situated close to Zumbo. This was the first intimation we had of
intercourse with the whites. The Barotse, and all the other tribes in
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