Travels and Researches in South Africa

Just before the arrival of my companions, a party of the people of the lake came to Kolobeng, stating that they were sent by Lechulatebe, the chief, to ask me to visit that country. They brought such flaming accounts of the quantities of ivory to be found there (cattle-pens made of elephants’ tusks of enormous size, that the guides of the Bakwains were quite as eager to succeed in reaching the lake as any one of us could desire.