Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. FROM PALACHWE TO FOBT VICTOKIA. Palachwe.--A terrible epidemic.--Malaria.--Semi-civilization.--Physically losing ground.--Khama and his country.--Total prohibition.--The Mangwato as a race.--Makalakas.--Darker phases of African life.--McKenzie and Hepburn.--The Matebele.--On the trek again.--My West Indians return.--A monotonous landscape.--Fort Macloutsie.--Hyenas and jackals.--Multum inparvo.--Tuli township.--"Show your passport."--A licensed prospector.--Mealies and pumpkins.--Lobengula's impis.--Matipi's kraal.--Whiskey shops.--Syndicates "dead broke."--White men's graves.--"Providential Pass."--A tragic story.--Zimbabwe.--An ancient stronghold.--Fort Victoria.--A hundred miles of sand. THE journey across the Kalahari Desert puts the strength and endurance of both man and beast to the severest test; but on the 30th of March we reached Palachwe, the principal town of the Mangwato, having been just four weeks on the road. We feel very thankful, too, when we remember the many broken wagons, shattered wheels and dessel-booms we passed on the way, telling of long delays and great trouble to others who had attempted the journey under less favorable circumstances. It is nothing rare for travelers to be delayed for months in the middle of the desert by flooded swamps, oxen dying, or wagons hopelessly broken down, and obliged to send back for assistance. Yet we are here, with a measure of fair health and strength (with the exception of a troublesome cough A TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC. 229 which annoys me much, and seems come to stay), in a semi-civilized country under the good chief Khama. We outspanned in front of Messrs. Blackbeard Bros.' trading station, where we are invited to stay for a couple of weeks, until arrangements are made for...
