lo A HUNTER'S WANDERINGS ch. i 



sold at a fair profit on the price I had given for 

 them. 



Whilst in Kimberley I met a fellow-passenger, a 

 young fellow about my own age, named Dorehill, a 

 son of General Dorehill, with whom I had contracted 

 a great friendship on board ship. He was then living 

 with a Mr. Sadlier, who hailed from the same town 

 as himself at home, and whom he had met accidentally 

 at the Diamond Fields. On my telling him that I 

 was off in a few days for the interior, he said he 

 would very much like to come with me, but scarcely 

 liked to leave his friend. However, thinking that on 

 a long expedition such as that I was about to under- 

 take, it would be better to travel in company with 

 friends than entirely alone, I proposed to Dorehill to 

 come, and get Sadlier to come too, and this was 

 finally agreed upon. We now prepared for an im- 

 mediate start, but not having very much money left 

 to dispose of, and not being able to get anything on 

 credit, as we had hoped to do, we had to content 

 ourselves with a supply of Boer meal, sugar, tea, 

 coffee, and a small quantity of ammunition, which, 

 with a few beads, completed our outfit. In the 

 matter of arms we were not very well off : Sadlier 

 had an Enfield rifie, Dorehill a Martini-Henry 

 carbine, and I myself a short Snider, besides the 

 muzzle-loading double ten, which I had already 

 found shot so badly as to be almost useless, and my 

 little shot-gun. 



