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mainly owing to the cheerful cooperation and indefatigable 

 exertion of Green. Nothing less than his energy could have 

 given us so prompt and, comparatively, so cheap a success." 



Without any thing remarkable occurring our travellers after- 

 wards proceeded in company to Objimbinque, wliich they reached 

 in safety. * * * * 



Arrived at Objimbinque, Andersson occupied himself in pre- 

 paring for the press his second work, "The Okavango River/ 

 and afterwards proceeded to the Cape, where, in 1861, he was 

 married to Miss Aitchison. 



His health being now much impaired, owing to the hardships 

 he had undergone during his several journeys, and more es- 

 pecially by the fever he caught near the river Okavango, there 

 was no longer a possibility of his resuming a wandering hunter's 

 life. He therefore determined on devoting himself to trading- 

 pursuits, for which purpose he settled at Objimbinque, where he 

 provided the native and other hunters with what they needed 

 for the chase, and received from them in return ivory, ostrich- 

 feathers, and cattle. At first he prospered, but after a time, 

 owing to a deadly feud between the Damaras and Namaquas, 

 the tide turned against him. Andersson, who dwelt in the 

 country of the former, took their part and assisted them both by 

 word and deed. The Namaquas, to revenge themselves on him, 

 seized his convoys one after the other, and at length, with arms 

 in their hands, made an attack on Objimbinque; Andersson, 

 who had put himself at the head of the Damaras, was wounded 

 during the battle that ensued, by a ball that shattered one of his 

 knees and being deserted by his cowardly Damara allies, with 

 difficulty saved his life. His wound confined him long to his 

 bed, and ultimately rendered him a cripple for the remainder of 

 his days. 



Some months afterwards he repaired to Cape Town, where he 

 chiefly occupied himself in the composition of a new work, entitled 

 " The Avifauna of South-west Africa." During his many years' 



