This was followed by Sebituane's people beating loudly on their shields all round the town.

The panic was tremendous, and the rush like that from a theatre on fire, while the Makololo used their javelins on the terrified Bakwains with a dexterity which they alone can employ.
Sebituane had given orders to his men to spare the sons of the chief; and one of them, meeting Sechele, put him in ward by giving him such a blow on the head with a club as to render him insensible.

The usurper was put to death; and Sechele, reinstated in his chieftainship, felt much attached to Sebituane.

The circumstances here noticed ultimately led me, as will be seen by-and-by, into the new, well-watered country to which this same Sebituane had preceded me by many years.
Sechele married the daughters of three of his under-chiefs, who had, on account of their blood relationship, stood by him in his adversity.

This is one of the modes adopted for cementing the allegiance of a tribe.