I now learned from his own lips that the public report of this is true.

Mr.Macabe's companion, Mahar, was mistaken by a tribe of Barolongs for a Boer, and shot as he approached their village.
When Macabe came up and explained that he was an Englishman, they expressed the utmost regret, and helped to bury him.

This was the first case in recent times of an Englishman being slain by the Bechuanas.
We afterward heard that there had been some fighting between these Barolongs and the Boers, and that there had been capturing of cattle on both sides.

If this was true, I can only say that it was the first time that I ever heard of cattle being taken by Bechuanas.

This was a Caffre war in stage the second; the third stage in the development is when both sides are equally well armed and afraid of each other; the fourth, when the English take up a quarrel not their own, and the Boers slip out of the fray.
Two other English gentlemen crossed and recrossed the Desert about the same time, and nearly in the same direction.