CHAPTER XII 



Land at Algoa Bay, 1876 — The Giraffe and its Habits — Giraffe-hunts 

 — Amandebele Marauders — Adventure with Lion — Narrow Escape 

 — Westbeech the Trader — Chase after Gemsbuck — Horse killed 

 by Lions ; wound the Male ; found dead by Bushmen soon after. 



On the 15th of March 1876 I once more landed at 

 Algoa Bay and immediately set about organising 

 another expedition to the interior. With the 

 details of my journey from the coast I will not 

 weary my readers. Suffice it to say that after four 

 months' continuous travelling by bullock waggon 

 I at length reached the Matabele country. At 

 Kanye, near Secheli's, I met my old friend, Mr. 

 Dorehill, who then joined company with me ; and, 

 on arriving at Tati, we fell in with two EngHsh 

 gentlemen, Lieutenant Grandy, R.N., and Mr. Horner, 

 who had come up country on a hunting trip, and 

 had only arrived a few days before ourselves. As 

 it was now too late in the season to think of visiting 

 any of the more distant hunting-grounds in search 

 of elephants, either in the neighbourhood of the 

 Zambesi, or in the Mashuna country, the four of us 

 chummed together, and passed the remainder of the 

 year in short hunting excursions up and down the 

 Tati, Shashi, and Ramokwebani rivers. During the 

 month of October Lieutenant Grandy and myself 

 made an excursion to Gubulawayo, the capital of 



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