. Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . ined to risk the utmost, and directed thepromised guide to appear without delay, declaring my inten-tion of proceeding to Libebe on foot. But it was quite clearthey had resolved not to let me pass beyond them, for, waited several days more, the man was not forthcoming. Finding remonstrances unavailing, I had no alternative butto retrace my steps, and, accordingly, I requested the tem-porary chief to prepare the canoes to convey me back to theLake. This highly delighted an
. Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . ined to risk the utmost, and directed thepromised guide to appear without delay, declaring my inten-tion of proceeding to Libebe on foot. But it was quite clearthey had resolved not to let me pass beyond them, for, waited several days more, the man was not forthcoming. Finding remonstrances unavailing, I had no alternative butto retrace my steps, and, accordingly, I requested the tem-porary chief to prepare the canoes to convey me back to theLake. This highly delighted and gratified the wily savage. Mortified and annoyed at the shameful manner in whichI had been treated, I was nevertheless glad to have comethus far. I had learned much in this short time (a summaryof which will be given in the following chapters), which Icould not have done had I remained at the Lake, to say noth-ing of the beautiful, diversified, and novel scenery which al- 476 THE REED-FERRY THE BAYEYE. most daily presented itself to the view, which alone was asufficient reward for my troubles and EEED-FERRY. CHAPTER XXXIX. TheBajeye.—Their Country; Persons; Language; Disposition; Ly-ing and Pilfering Habits.—Polygamy practiced among the Bayeye.—Their Houses; Dress; Ornaments; Weapons; Liquors; Agri-culture ; Grain ; Fruits ; Granaries.—Hunting.—Fishing.—Nets.—Diseases.—The Matsanyana.—The Bavicko.—Libebe. For a considerable distance to the northward of the chiefswerft, the banks of the Teoge are inhabited by Bayeye, anda few scattered Bushmen, all acknowledging Lecholetebe astheir chief. Cooley supposes that these people came origin-ally from the West Coast, and that they have been established * The above wood-cut represents a native in the act of ferrying him-self across the river on notliing .but a bundle of reeds, with sidingsand uprights of the same light materials. It is a most ingenious con-trivance, and, in localities where wood is scarc
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