On finding that they were entrapped to fight, they left, after seeing an officer with a large number of Tette slaves killed.
The Batoka had attained somewhat civilized ideas, in planting and protecting various fruit and oil-seed yielding trees of the country.

No other tribe either plants or abstains from cutting down fruit trees, but here we saw some which had been planted in regular rows, and the trunks of which were quite two feet in diameter.

The grand old Mosibe, a tree yielding a bean with a thin red pellicle, said to be very fattening, had probably seen two hundred summers.

Dr.Kirk found that the Mosibe is peculiar, in being allied to a species met with only in the West Indies.
The Motsikiri, sometimes called Mafuta, yields a hard fat, and an oil which is exported from Inhambane.

It is said that two ancient Batoka travellers went down as far as the Loangwa, and finding the Macaa tree (_jujube_ or _zisyphus_) in fruit, carried the seed all the way back to the great Falls, in order to plant them.