will notice that some horses will want to take any turn 

 off to the right, others always go to the left, and only 

 very few keep straight on. When out walking you 

 will find that some people cannot walk on your right 

 hand without coming across your front or working 

 you into the gutter ; others * mule ' you from the left. 

 Get them out in open country, walk briskly, and 

 talk ; then give way a little each time they bump you, 

 and in a very little while you will have done the circle. 

 If you have this tendency in the Bushveld, where you 

 cannot see any distant object to make for as a goal, 

 any obstacle straight in front of you throws you off 

 to the side you incline to ; any openings in the trees 

 which look like avenues or easy ways draw you ; and 

 between any two of them you will always choose the 

 one on your favourite side. Finally, a little know- 

 ledge is a dangerous thing in the veld, as elsewhere. 

 When you know enough to recognise marks with- 

 out being able to identify or locate them that is, 

 when you know you have seen them before but are 

 not sure of the when and the where goodness only 

 knows what conclusion you will come to or what you 

 will do. 



I had passed Cigarette Kopje, it's true ; but when 

 coming towards it from a new side it must have looked 

 quite different ; and besides that, I had not been expect- 

 ing it, not looking for it, not even thinking of it had 

 indeed said good-bye to it for ever. When we turned 

 back at the molehill, beginning to do the circle for the 

 second time, we must have passed quite close to 

 Cigarette Kopje again, but again it was from a different 



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