FIFTY YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



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Early Memories Some Reminiscences Celebrities I 

 Met Chats with Naval and Military Veterans of the 

 Napoleonic Wars Paris in 1830 The Street Fighting 

 Costumes of the English and French Working Classes 

 contrasted Boating Fencing Archery A Visit to the 

 Highlands _---i 



CHAPTER II. 

 FIRST YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA. 



The Voyage Out Cape Town Its Inhabitants Fox- 

 hunting on "The Flats" Unsuitable Immigrants Trip 

 to Graaf Reinet Sport A Bivouac Stock Farming 

 Game The " Totties "Kaffir Warfare Game on the 

 Limpopo Gordon Gumming Oswell David Living- 

 stone Kuruman Motits Then and Now - - - 12 



CHAPTER III. 

 GAME AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA. 



Available Sport in South Africa The Game Lands 

 Best Localities Equipment for Travel A Trip into 

 " The Great Thirst Land " 33 



CHAPTER IV. 



LIONS. 



Lions and Methods of Hunting Them An Awkward 

 Rencontre Boers as Lion Hunters As Game Shots 

 Fate of an Englishman in Lion Hunting Boer Com- 



