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Night after night these troubles were repeated, 

 but gradually the skerm became impregnable to 

 anything but an elephantine attack, and the game 

 took to using the opposite side of the pool. The 

 second day after arriving at this pool was wholly 

 occupied by butchering the rhino and hanging up 

 the meat to dry in the arid atmosphere, during 

 which process a few wild bushmen arrived 

 and made themselves useful. Fortunately the 

 Hottentot could partially understand the bushmen's 

 gibberish, and they were hired, for meat payment, 



to accompany D and his " boy " to the waggon 



to bring up supplies. 



By a short cut the waggon was reached by one 

 day's long march (say thirty miles), and everything 

 was found untouched. With the help of the 

 bushmen a good supply of things was brought 

 into camp at the pool, but as the bushmen now 



knew all about the deserted waggon, D , as 



a precaution against predatory instincts, previous 

 to leaving it, had arranged a large heavily loaded 

 pistol so that it would explode and hit any one 

 climbing over the box-seat. This saved the cargo, 



as when D again visited the waggon the 



remains of a bushman were found in front of the 



