A word more before I conclude. As I have found it cur rently believed, both on the Continent and at home, that the Royal Geographical Society or that the British govern ment has paid the costs of my several explorations in the interior of Africa, I must, in justice to myself, contradict this statement in the most unqualified manner. The ex penses of all my African expeditions have been defrayed entirely by myself. In this volume I have seen reason to alter the spelling of a few places mentioned in Lake Ngami.