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J. Macabe returning from Lake Ngami, which he had succeeded in reaching by going right across the Desert from a point a little to the south of Kolobeng.
Macabe's companion, Mahar, was mistaken by a tribe of Barolongs for a Boer, and shot as he approached their village. When Macabe came up and explained that he was an Englishman, they expressed the utmost regret, and helped to bury him. This was the first case in recent times of an Englishman being slain by the Bechuanas.
Before the lake was discovered, Macabe wrote a letter in one of the Cape papers recommending a certain route as likely to lead to it. The Transvaal Boers fined him 500 dollars for writing about "ouze felt", OUR country, and imprisoned him, too, till the fine was paid. I now learned from his own lips that the public report of this is true. Mr.
Macabe on his Return from Lake Ngami The hot Wind of the Desert Electric State of the Atmosphere Flock of Swifts Reach Litubaruba The Cave Lepelole Superstitions regarding it Impoverished State of the Bakwains Retaliation on the Boers Slavery Attachment of the Bechuanas to Children Hydrophobia unknown Diseases of the Bakwains few in number Yearly Epidemics Hasty Burials Ophthalmia Native Doctors Knowledge of Surgery at a very low Ebb Little Attendance given to Women at their Confinements The "Child Medicine" Salubrity of the Climate well adapted for Invalids suffering from pulmonary Complaints.
His sufferings must have been far more severe than any we endured. The result of the exertions of both Shelley and Macabe is to prove that the general view of the Desert always given by the natives has been substantially correct. Occasionally, during the very dry seasons which succeed our winter and precede our rains, a hot wind blows over the Desert from north to south.
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