Missionary Society--Native Village--Medical Diploma--
Theological Studies--Departure for Africa--No Claim to
Literary Accomplishments.

Chapter 1. The Bakwain Country--Study of the Language--Native
Ideas regarding Comets--Mabotsa Station--A Lion Encounter--
Virus of the Teeth of Lions--Names of the Bechuana Tribes--
Sechele--His Ancestors--Obtains the Chieftainship--His
Marriage and Government--The Kotla--First public Religious
Services--Sechele's Questions--He Learns to Read--Novel mode
for Converting his Tribe--Surprise at their Indifference--
Polygamy--Baptism of Sechele--Opposition of the Natives--
Purchase Land at Chonuane--Relations with the People--Their
Intelligence--Prolonged Drought--Consequent Trials--Rain-
medicine--God's Word blamed--Native Reasoning--Rain-maker--
Dispute between Rain Doctor and Medical Doctor--The Hunting
Hopo--Salt or animal Food a necessary of Life--Duties of a
Missionary.

Chapter 2. The Boers--Their Treatment of the Natives--Seizure
of native Children for Slaves--English Traders--Alarm of the
Boers--Native Espionage--The Tale of the Cannon--The Boers
threaten Sechele--In violation of Treaty, they stop English
Traders and expel Missionaries--They attack the Bakwains--
Their Mode of Fighting--The Natives killed and the School-
children carried into Slavery--Destruction of English
Property--African Housebuilding and Housekeeping--Mode of
Spending the Day--Scarcity of Food--Locusts--Edible Frogs--
Scavenger Beetle--Continued Hostility of the Boers--The
Journey north--Preparations--Fellow-travelers--The Kalahari