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Updated: July 6, 2025
Khama had now freed his people from the terror of the lion, the tyranny of witch-doctors, and the dread of the Matabele. Yet the deadliest enemy of Khama and the most loathsome tyrant of the Bamangwato was still in power, the strong drink which degrades the African to unspeakable depths.
Cama is what the Bamangwato call the antelope. Khama is how we spell the boy's name. He gazed in wonder as he saw a sturdy man wearing clothes such as he had not seen before what we call coat and hat, trousers and boots. He looked into the bronzed face of the white man and saw that his eyes and mouth were kind. Together they walked back into the village.
"It is my desire," he said, "that no strong drink shall be sold in my town." "We will not bring the great casks of brandy," they replied, "but we hope you will allow us to have cases of bottles as they are for medicine." "I consent," said Khama, "but there must be no drunkenness." "Certainly," the white men replied, "there shall be no drunkenness."
On this journey the officers encountered the celebrated King Khama, and it interested B.-P. to find that Khama knew him as the brother of Sir George Baden-Powell, and that he inquired after Sir George's little girl, just as a lady in the Park asks if one's baby has got over the measles.
The men who had boasted of what they meant to do and had never performed, never heard Khama either at that time or later make any mention of this great feat.
Then one experienced the peculiar illusion of gliding along the river; it was necessary to plant one's feet far apart to prevent a fall. The Khama near Perm is over a mile wide, and this method of Nature to herald spring to these snow- and ice-bound regions lacks nothing so far as grandeur is concerned. During the next few days millions of tons of derelict timber passed on its way to the Caspian.
In serried masses thousand upon thousand the Bamangwato faced their great chief. He lifted up his voice: "I, Khama, your chief, order that you shall not make beer. You take the corn that God has given to us in answer to our prayers and you destroy it. Nay, you not only destroy it, but you make stuff with it that causes mischief among you." There was some murmuring. His eyes flashed like steel.
Those swift, spare limbs of his, that could keep pace with a galloping horse, gave him the right to his name, Khama the Antelope. The voices dropped, and the men, rolling themselves in the skins of wild beasts, lay down and slept all except one, whose eyes watched in the darkness as sleeplessly as the stars. When they were asleep Khama took up his gun and went out into the starry night.
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