The inference is obvious.

Were we as much harassed by droughts, the logic would be irresistible in England in 1857.
* The name arises from its being always voided on one spot, in the manner practiced by others of the rhinocerontine family; and, by the action of the sun, it becomes a black, pitchy substance.
As the Bakwains believed that there must be some connection between the presence of "God's Word" in their town and these successive and distressing droughts, they looked with no good will at the church bell, but still they invariably treated us with kindness and respect.

I am not aware of ever having had an enemy in the tribe.

The only avowed cause of dislike was expressed by a very influential and sensible man, the uncle of Sechele.

"We like you as well as if you had been born among us; you are the only white man we can become familiar with (thoaela); but we wish you to give up that everlasting preaching and praying; we can not become familiar with that at all.