Two shots furnished our whole party with a supper, for we picked up seventeen ducks and a goose.

No wonder the Barotse always look back to this fruitful valley as the Israelites did to the flesh-pots of Egypt.

The poorest persons are so well supplied with food from their gardens, fruits from the forest trees, and fish from the river, that their children, when taken into the service of the Makololo, where they have only one large meal a day, become quite emaciated, and pine for a return to their parents.
* 'Anser leucagaster' and 'melanogaster'.
Part of our company marched along the banks with the oxen, and part went in the canoes, but our pace was regulated by the speed of the men on shore.

Their course was rather difficult, on account of the numbers of departing and re-entering branches of the Leeambye, which they had to avoid or wait at till we ferried them over.

The number of alligators is prodigious, and in this river they are more savage than in some others.
Many children are carried off annually at Sesheke and other towns; for, notwithstanding the danger, when they go down for water they almost always must play a while.