We had the pleasure of meeting with Mr.J.Macabe returning from Lake Ngami, which he had succeeded in reaching by going right across the Desert from a point a little to the south of Kolobeng.

The accounts of the abundance of watermelons were amply confirmed by this energetic traveler; for, having these in vast quantities, his cattle subsisted on the fluid contained in them for a period of no less than twenty-one days; and when at last they reached a supply of water, they did not seem to care much about it.
Coming to the lake from the southeast, he crossed the Teoughe, and went round the northern part of it, and is the only European traveler who had actually seen it all.

His estimate of the extent of the lake is higher than that given by Mr.Oswell and myself, or from about ninety to one hundred miles in circumference.

Before the lake was discovered, Macabe wrote a letter in one of the Cape papers recommending a certain route as likely to lead to it.

The Transvaal Boers fined him 500 dollars for writing about "ouze felt", OUR country, and imprisoned him, too, till the fine was paid.