If the chief saw a man running away from the fight, he rushed after him with amazing speed, and cut him down; or waited till he returned to the town, and then summoned the deserter into his presence.

"You did not wish to die on the field, you wished to die at home, did you?
you shall have your wish!" and he was instantly led off and executed.

The present race of young men are inferior in most respects to their fathers.

The old Makololo had many manly virtues; they were truthful, and never stole, excepting in what they considered the honourable way of lifting cattle in fair fight.

But this can hardly be said of their sons; who, having been brought up among the subjected tribes, have acquired some of the vices peculiar to a menial and degraded race.