CONTENTS 



PART I 



CHAPTER 1 



Land at Alsjoa Bay — Diamond Fields — Trading Trip through Griqua- 

 land — The Chief Manchuran — Batlapin Village— ^-Griqiia Town — 

 Bushman's Lair — Klas Lucas, the Koranna Chief — Bechuanas at 

 Lange Berg — Appearance of Country — Return to Diamond 

 Fields — Preparations for Second Expedition . . Pages i-io 



CHAPTER JI 



Kuruinan — Seventy-eight Elephants shot — Bechuana Chief, Montsua — 

 Secheli — Bamangwato — Scenery — Hard-working Missionaries — 

 First Giraffe -hunt — Lost in the Veldt — Great Sufferings — Cold 

 — Hunger — Thirst — Ninety Hours' Fast — Loss of " Salted " Horse 

 — Heartlessness of Natives — The Lost found — First Lion seen — 

 Tati Gold Fields — Mashuna Diggings . . • . 11-32 



CHAPTER HI 



Massacre of a Tribe — Native Dress — Remarkable Scenery — Lobengula, 

 King of the Matabele — Uniziligazi — Slaughter of the " Headmen " 

 — Battle of Zwang Indaba — Lions — Piet Jacobs — Terrible Adven- 

 ture with a Lion — Mashunas — Elands — Start Hunting with 



"Cigar," the Hottentot 33-47 



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