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Smith, very narrowly escaped hanging. When 

 things were again quiet, he estabhshed himself in the 

 fertile district of Marico, in the north-west of the 

 Transvaal, giving his flirm the significant name 

 of " Far-genog " (Far enough). 



On the third day from Gubulawayo we reached 

 Inyati, the most advanced station of the London 

 Missionary Society. There I made the acquaintance 

 of the resident missionary, the Rev. W. Sykes. He 

 told me that when he first came here, in 1859, game 

 of every kind abounded, that he had often been 

 called by the natives to drive elephants out of their 

 cornfields, that he constantly saw buffaloes and 

 rhinoceroses going down to the river to drink in 

 the afternoon, and that lions roared nightly round 

 his house, and frequently quenched their thirst at 

 the little reedy pool not more than two hundred 

 yards from his doorstep. However, times have 

 changed indeed since then, and game of every 

 description has now been driven far beyond the 

 inhabited portion of the Matabele country. 



Between Gubulawayo and Inyati the road passes 

 two places of interest in Matabele history : the first 

 is " Intaba Izenduna," or the mountain of the head- 

 men, a low flat-topped hill, which gained its name 

 from the following circumstance. When Umziligazi 

 first reached what is now the Matabele country, he 

 passed right through it, intending to journey still 

 farther northwards and settle beyond the Zambesi ; 

 some of his indunas, however, seeing that the land 

 was fiiir, with plenty of water and good pasturage, 

 deserted their king and stopped behind. Umziligazi 

 proceeded on his journey, but before long got into 

 the country infested by the tsetse-fly, and, finding 

 that his numerous herds of cattle were being 



