As for Bubi himself, he was afterward burned to death by an explosion of gunpowder, which one of his sorcerers was trying, by means of burnt roots, to _un_-bewitch.
In advancing, Livingstone had occasion to pass through a part of the great Kalahari desert, and here he met with Sekomi, a chief of the Bamangwato, from whom also he received a most friendly reception.

The ignorance of this tribe he found to be exceedingly great: "Their conceptions of the Deity are of the most vague and contradictory nature, and the name of God conveys no more to their understanding than the idea of superiority.

Hence they do not hesitate to apply the name to their chiefs.

I was every day shocked by being addressed by that title, and though it as often furnished me with a text from which to tell them of the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom he has sent, yet it deeply pained me, and I never felt so fully convinced of the lamentable detoriation of our species.

It is indeed a mournful truth that man has become like the beasts that perish." The place was greatly infested by lions, and during Livingstone's visit an awful occurrence took place that made a great impression on him: "A woman was actually devoured in her garden during my visit, and that so near the town that I had frequently walked past it.