xiv CONTENTS 



FACE 



CHAPTER VII 



The Springbuck Drive — The Bushman Caves — 117 

 Return to Gamoep 



CHAPTER VIII 



The Summer Clouds — News of Rain — Start for 

 Pella — The Vedic Hymns — Digging for 

 Water — Arrival at Pella — Terrible Heat — 

 The Tribe — Aquinas in the Wilderness — The 

 Mission — The River Gorge — The Tarantula 

 Invasion 134 



CHAPTER IX 



Morning in the Gorge — Departure from Pella — 

 Journey to Brabies — Protection of the Oryx 

 — Its Peculiarities — Antelopes of the Desert 

 and the Forest — Camping at Brabies . . 155 



CHAPTER X 



The Oryx Hunt — Terrible Thirst — Prehistoric 



Weapons 165 



CHAPTER XI 



The Richtersveld — Kuboos — The Vicar of Wake- 

 field Redivivus —Gold-seeking — The Raad — 

 Morbid Sensibility — Start for El Dorado . 180 



CHAPTER XII 



Expedition to the River — Flora and Fauna — The 

 Pneumoras — Abnormal Springbuck — The 

 Sea-fog — Wild Horses — Fauna and Bimini . 203 



CHAPTER XIII 

 Kamiebies — The Blossoming Wilderness — The 

 Ostrich Poachers — Hail Storms — The 

 Springbuck Behind the Dune — How Andries 

 Found Me 228 



L'Envoi ..,,,... 249 



