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 A RAY OF HOPE. 4U a second with no better success. In a third attempt, how-r ever, he wended his way northwards with his famîly and Mr. Oswell aloivg the Chobé, an affluent of the Zambesi, and after a dîfficult journey at length reached the district of the Makalolos, of whom the chief, named Sebituané, joined him at Linyanté. The Zambesi itself was dis- covered at the end of June, 185 1, and the doctor returncd to the Cape for the purpose of sending his family to England. His next project was to cross the continent oblîquely from south to wcst» but in this expédition he had resolved that he would risk no life but his own. Accompanied» therefore, by only a few natives, he started in the foUowing J une, and skirting the Kalahari désert entered Litoubarouba on the last day of the year ; hère he found the Bechuana district much ravaged by the Boers, the original Dutch colonîsts, who had formed the population of the Cape before ît came into the possession of the English. After a fort- night's stay, he proceeded into the heart of the district of the Bamangonatos, and travelled continuously untii the 23 rd of May, when he arrived at Linyanté, and was received with much honour by Sekeletoo, who had recently become sovereign of the Makalolos. A severe attack of fever detained the traveller hère for a period, but he made good use of the enforced rest by studying the manners of the country, and became for the firsttime sensible ofits terrible sufTerings in conséquence of the slave-trade. Descending the course of the Chobé to the Zambesi, he next entered Naniele, and after visîting Katonga and Libonta, advanced to the point of confluence of the Leeba with the Zambesi, where he determined. upon ascending the former as far as the Portuguese possessions in the west ; it was an undertaking, however, that required considérable préparation, so that it was necessary for him to return to Linyanté. On the iith of November he again started. He was accompanied by twenty-seven Makalolos, and ascended the Leeba till,in the terri tory of the Balonda, he reached a spot where it received the waters of its tributary the Makondo.