. Travels and adventures in southern Africa. le is two feet long, and thecurved blade is sharpened on the outer edge. 2. Bechuana battle-axe. This is a very effective weapon. The handle is twenty-sixinches in length, and formed of the elastic horn of the rhinoceros. The drawing is takenfrom one sent to the author by Mateebe, with which he had hewed off the heads of threeMantatees on the field of Lattakoo. 3. Bechuana knife, with carved ivory handle. 4. Sheath of ditto. 5. Ivory whistle, used in war, at public meetings, &c. 6. Bechuana or Bushman quiver, formed of bark or leather, thirty inches
. Travels and adventures in southern Africa. le is two feet long, and thecurved blade is sharpened on the outer edge. 2. Bechuana battle-axe. This is a very effective weapon. The handle is twenty-sixinches in length, and formed of the elastic horn of the rhinoceros. The drawing is takenfrom one sent to the author by Mateebe, with which he had hewed off the heads of threeMantatees on the field of Lattakoo. 3. Bechuana knife, with carved ivory handle. 4. Sheath of ditto. 5. Ivory whistle, used in war, at public meetings, &c. 6. Bechuana or Bushman quiver, formed of bark or leather, thirty inches in length. 7. Bushmans poisoned arrow. The shaft is of reed, and twenty-six inches in length. 8. Shaft of ditto, without the point. 9. Bechuana arrow—similar to the Bushmans, except Ln the shape of its head. 10. Shaft of ditto. 11. 12, Zoola assagais. The shaft is about six feet in length. Every warrior carriessix or seven. 14. Mantatee assagai. 15. Amakosa ditto. 16. Hambona ditto. 17. Bechuana ditto. 174 MR. MELVILLS CHAPTER melvills xahrative of transactions after the battle, AND or HIS EXCURSION TO RESCUE THE WOMEN AND CHILDRENOF THE INVADERS. When I came off the field of battle, (says Mr. Melvill,) I met the Griquas,who had just returned from the piu-suit, and had unsaddled their horses,at a spot about a quarter of a mile from the place where the Mantateeswere first encountered. Mr. Moffat and I used every means in our powerto induce them to take care of the women that were left behind; for welearned that the Bechuanas, who were assembled at a place about threehundred yards from us, had carried off, as prisoners, a number of women,being chiefly those whom we ourselves, with one or two Griquas, had, with MR. melvills narrative. 175 much trouble, and by main force, brought along from a great distance, butwho had lingered behind and again fallen into the power of their foes. TheGrriqua chiefs, tberefore, sent a messenger to tell Mateebe that, as the
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