That fate we deeply deplore; for, whatever other faults the Makololo might justly be charged with, they did not belong to the class who buy and sell each other, and the tribes who have succeeded them do.
{4} It was with sorrow that we learned by a letter from Mr.Moffat, in 1864, that poor Sekeletu was dead.

As will be mentioned further on, men were sent with us to bring up more medicine.

They preferred to remain on the Shire, and, as they were free men, we could do no more than try and persuade them to hasten back to their chief with iodine and other remedies.

They took the parcel, but there being only two real Makololo among them, these could neither return themselves alone or force their attendants to leave a part of the country where they were independent, and could support themselves with ease.

Sekeletu, however, lived long enough to receive and acknowledge goods to the value of 50 pounds, sent, in lieu of those which remained in Tette, by Robert Moffat, jun., since dead.
{5} A brother, we believe, of one who accompanied Burke and Willis in the famous but unfortunate Australian Expedition.
{6} Genesis, chap.iii., verses 21 and 23, "make coats of skins, and clothed them"-- "sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground" imply teaching.