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mounting ; and she now forms part of the fine 

 collection of South African mammalia which is in 

 the Museum at Cape Town. 



It would be but tedious reading were I to con- 

 tinue to describe in detail my further bush-crawling 

 experiences in search of inyalas. Suffice it to say 

 that, on October i and 2, I secured two more fine 

 males, whose heads I preserved for my own collec- 

 tion. Although I should have liked to have got a 

 fourth male for the South African Museum, I did 

 not think it prudent to remain any longer in my 

 camp on the edge of a swamp, where I knew the 

 air must be reeking with malarial poison, as, besides 

 the exhalations from the marsh, the ground (from 

 which I was only separated at nights by a little dry 

 grass and a blanket) had been soaked to the depth 

 of two feet by the recent rain, thus rendering the 

 conditions more than usually unhealthy. The 

 weather, too, was now again looking very threaten- 

 ing, and I did not relish the idea of any further lying 

 out in the rain ; as I knew, from former experience, 

 that I should probably have to pay for the wettings 

 I had already suffered, by some attacks of fever — 

 a disease from which I had been entirely exempt 

 for seven years, but the poison of which I knew 

 was still in my blood, and would be likely to be 

 again stirred into activity by my recent exposure 

 to unhealthy conditions. 



Hence, on Saturday, October 3, I packed up my 

 things and returned to Gugawi's kraal, walking on 

 in the afternoon to Mr. Wissels's store. At Gugawi's 

 I met an Englishman, who informed me that he 

 had come down from Barberton, and was travel- 

 ling about amongst the Amatonga, buying skins of 

 wild cats, jackals, etc., which he hoped to sell again 

 at a profit to the Kafirs working in the mines in 

 the Transvaal. He seemed much surprised when 

 I told him that I had only come to Amatongaland 



