A few villages of Bakalahari were found near them, and great numbers of pallahs, springbucks, Guinea-fowl, and small monkeys.
Lopepe came next.

This place afforded another proof of the desiccation of the country.

The first time I passed it, Lopepe was a large pool with a stream flowing out of it to the south; now it was with difficulty we could get our cattle watered by digging down in the bottom of a well.
At Mashue--where we found a never-failing supply of pure water in a sandstone rocky hollow--we left the road to the Bamangwato hills, and struck away to the north into the Desert.

Having watered the cattle at a well called Lobotani, about N.W.of Bamangwato, we next proceeded to a real Kalahari fountain, called Serotli.

The country around is covered with bushes and trees of a kind of leguminosae, with lilac flowers.