They call me away myself.

I can not stay much longer." This vaticination, which loses much in the translation, I have given rather fully, as it shows an observant mind.

The policy recommended was wise, and the deaths of the "senoga" and of the two men he had named, added to the destruction of their village, having all happened soon after, it is not wonderful that Sebituane followed implicitly the warning voice.

The fire pointed to was evidently the Portuguese fire-arms, of which he must have heard.

The black men referred to were the Barotse, or, as they term themselves, Baloiana; and Sebituane spared their chiefs, even though they attacked him first.