Footnotes:
{1}A remedy composed of from six to eight grains of resin of jalap, the same of rhubarb, and three each of calomel and quinine, made up into four pills, with tincture of cardamoms, usually relieved all the symptoms in five or six hours.Four pills are a full dose for a man--one will suffice for a woman.They received from our men the name of "rousers," from their efficacy in rousing up even those most prostrated.When their operation is delayed, a dessert-spoonful of Epsom salts should be given.Quinine after or during the operation of the pills, in large doses every two or three hours, until deafness or cinchonism ensued, completed the cure.The only cases in which, we found ourselves completely helpless, were those in which obstinate vomiting ensued.
{2}The late Mr. Robson.
{3}In 1865, four years after these forebodings were penned, we received intelligence that they had all come to pass.Sekeletu died in the beginning of 1864--a civil war broke out about the succession to the chieftainship; a large body of those opposed to the late chief's uncle, Impololo, being regent, departed with their cattle to Lake Ngami; an insurrection by the black tribes followed; Impololo was slain, and the kingdom, of which, under an able sagacious mission, a vast deal might have been made, has suffered the usual fate of African conquests.That fate we deeply deplore; for, whatever other faults the Makololo might justly be charged with, they did not belong to the class who buy and sell each other, and the tribes who have succeeded them do.