NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



a similar manner. The herd of cows had broken 

 out of the kraal and were careering over the veld, 

 and all the Hottentot farm hands had fled. 



My friend, realising that unless the ratels were 

 destroyed he would have no peace, since having 

 tasted of his honey they would be sure to turn up 

 again, determined to hunt them down. 



Getting together a number of natives and dogs, 

 we systematically searched a neighbouring kloof, 

 and late in the afternoon located a pair of ratels 

 in a hole excavated between two large rocks and 

 under another which was overhanging. After con- 

 siderable trouble the natives dug the ratels out 

 and speared them with their assegais. 



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