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rivers farther north, one well-known breeding station 

 being the Berg River, which runs into the sea about 

 seventy or eighty miles north of Cape Town. 



We were divided in our minds whether to go to 

 this place, or to the neighbourhood of the Knysna 

 Forest, which lies almost at the extreme south of the 

 Colony, between Mossel Bay and Port Elizabeth. It 

 would be impossible for us to visit both places in the 

 same breeding season, as travelling in South Africa is 

 not so easily accomplished as it is at home ; finally, we 

 decided on Knysna. This meant returning to Cape 

 Town by way of Caledon, and along the route we had 

 previously traversed. Between Caledon and Stanford is 

 some rather wild country, and here, on our outward jour- 

 ney we saw a number of baboons which were feeding in 

 a wheatfield ; they were separated from us by a river, and 

 as we approached them they leisurely made their way 

 out of the field, and began climbing a low mountain ; 

 they looked something like very large dogs, and as 

 they climbed the hillside they often stopped to look 

 round at us. 



Caledon is a very much larger place than Stanford, 

 and possesses a Dutch and English church, besides two 

 or three hotels. The town relies to some extent for its 

 prosperity upon its hot-water springs, and here one may 

 have unlimited hot baths free of charge. 



I obtained one or two photographs at Caledon, 

 notably those of the Three-collared Sand-plover and its 

 nest. In returning home one evening, my friend put up 

 a bird which we took to be some kind of Sandpiper, and 

 as we were walking over the same piece of ground on 

 the following day, the bird rose from the centre of a 



