There, suffering intensely from thirst, he and his party came to a small well.

He decided that the men, not the cattle, should drink it, the former being of most value, as they could fight for more should these be lost.

In the morning they found the cattle had escaped to the Damaras.
* We found the Batauana in possession of this breed when we discovered Lake Ngami.

One of these horns, brought to England by Major Vardon, will hold no less than twenty-one imperial pints of water; and a pair, brought by Mr.Oswell, and now in the possession of Colonel Steele, measures from tip to tip eight and a half feet.
Returning to the north poorer than he started, he ascended the Teoughe to the hill Sorila, and crossed over a swampy country to the eastward.
Pursuing his course onward to the low-lying basin of the Leeambye, he saw that it presented no attraction to a pastoral tribe like his, so he moved down that river among the Bashubia and Batoka, who were then living in all their glory.

His narrative resembled closely the "Commentaries of Caesar", and the history of the British in India.