Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . of the distance, and resolutelypressed on. Poor fellow! He found his resources exhaustedwhen he got to the Cape; there was none to help him, for thegovernor had his own theory about dealing with the Boers andthe native tribes; and the chief sadly turned away from thesea^ to begin his weary return journey of a thousand miles tohis own country. Sechele had left orders that his people Avere not to under-take any act of revenge during his absence; but some of h
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . of the distance, and resolutelypressed on. Poor fellow! He found his resources exhaustedwhen he got to the Cape; there was none to help him, for thegovernor had his own theory about dealing with the Boers andthe native tribes; and the chief sadly turned away from thesea^ to begin his weary return journey of a thousand miles tohis own country. Sechele had left orders that his people Avere not to under-take any act of revenge during his absence; but some of hisyoung men had disobeyed this, and attacked the Boers. Thelatter became alarmed, and thinking that the Bakwains meantto begin a guerrilla war, sent four embassadors to ask forpeace. One condition was made: That Secheles childrenshould be returned to him; this was .eagerly acceded to, andwhen the chief arrived, he found that his appeal would havebeen needless. Leaving Kolobeng on the fifteenth of January, they skirtedthe edge of the Kalahari Desert again; but the precedingrainy season an unusual quantity of rain had fallen, and con-. LIVINGSTONE THE MISSIONARY. 321 sequently they did not suffer for water as before. This wasa country much frequented by lions, and Mr. Oswell, whoagain accompanied the missionary, found much sport in hunt-ing them. Upon one occasion, his spoi-t came near endingmore fatally for himself than for the lion. He had exhaustedthe loads in his gun without any effect except to wound thelion, which, enraged by the pain, sprang upon the hind-quar-ters of his horse as he turned to fly over the plain. The riderwas dragged from his saddle by the thorns of an overhangingtree, and the fall rendered him insensible. The hunters dogsattacked the lion, which soon fell dead from the effects of theprevious wound. A little farther on, they came across many indications ofthe presence of ostriches. Livingstone says of this bird: ** The ostrich is generally seen quietly fee
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