CHAPTER XIX 



Visit tile Transvaal — Start again for tlie interior — Leave Bamangwato — 

 Mabiakabe Pan — Eland - shooting — Reach the Botletlie river — 

 Scarcity of Water — Lion shot — Giraffes — Gemsbuck-hunting — 

 Starving Bushmen — Gemsbuck shot — Leave the Botletlie — Reach 

 Sode-Garra — Start for the Mababe — No Water — Sufferings of the 

 Oxen — Abandon the Waggons — Reach the Mababe Plain — Water 

 at last — Endurance of Oxen — Troop of Hyrenas — Sport with Lions 

 — Arrival of Collison and French — Sad death of Matthew Clarkson. 



In January 1879, after having seen the Inxwala 

 dance, I left the Matabele country and trekked 

 southwards as far as Klerksdorp in the Transvaal, 

 from whence, after laying in a fresh supply of stores, 

 ammunition, etc., I at once started on another 

 hunting expedition to the interior, which I reckoned 

 would have extended over two or three years, had 

 not a most deplorable occurrence, which I will relate 

 farther on, obliged me to again travel southwards as 

 far as the Diamond Fields early the following year. 



On April 14 I again reached Bamangwato, and 

 having obtained permission from " Khama," the 

 chief, to travel through his country to the Mababe 

 river, on condition that I would leave my waggons 

 there, and hunt farther north on the Chobe and 

 Sunta rivers, I made a start on the 17th. On this 

 expedition Miller again accompanied me, as well as 

 another young colonist, Mr. Sell, a German by 

 birth, and a very hard-working, trustworthy young 



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