Sekomi, however, was more than usually gracious, and even furnished us with a guide, but no one knew the path beyond Nchokotsa which we intended to follow.

When we reached that point, we found that the main spring of the gun of another of his men, who was well acquainted with the Bushmen, through whose country we should pass, had opportunely broken.

I never undertook to mend a gun with greater zest than this; for, under promise of his guidance, we went to the north instead of westward.

All the other guides were most liberally rewarded by Mr.Oswell.
We passed quickly over a hard country, which is perfectly flat.

A little soil lying on calcareous tufa, over a tract of several hundreds of miles, supports a vegetation of fine sweet short grass, and mopane and baobab trees.