 In the farming districts, though communication was facilitated by the construction of railways, the future seemed precarious owing to droughts, cattle diseases, locusts etc.As a consequence the population is unsettled and shifting, and sacerdotal vocations within the vicariate are hardly to be expected for the present.Catechisms and prayer books in the native language have, however, been compiled by Father Porte who made an expedition into Bechuanaland in 1898, and discovered that the natives, while akin in race and speech to the Basutos, are more rooted in fetishism.