The chief Sechele was himself a noted rain-doctor, and believed in it implicitly.

He has often assured me that he found it more difficult to give up his faith in that than in any thing else which Christianity required him to abjure.

I pointed out to him that the only feasible way of watering the gardens was to select some good, never-failing river, make a canal, and irrigate the adjacent lands.

This suggestion was immediately adopted, and soon the whole tribe was on the move to the Kolobeng, a stream about forty miles distant.

The experiment succeeded admirably during the first year.