go KLOOF AND KARROO. 



back, a blanket carelessly yet most gracefully folded 

 round her and over one shoulder. Occasionally they 

 have some assegai practice, and it is interesting to 

 watch them. Their powers of throwing this weapon 

 have been greatly exaggerated to my thinking : at 

 more than thirty yards it is odds on the moving 

 target, and beyond seventy even a stationary object 

 is pretty safe. The shaking, quivering motion they 

 impart to their spears before casting them, is very 

 curious. With the knobkerrie (knobstick) they are 

 wonderful shots, knocking over with ease a running 

 hare or a flying game-bird. The hunting grounds 

 of these people, once lords over much of this country, 

 are now greatly circumscribed ; they can only pursue 

 game upon their own lands, and it must be a sore 

 point I imagine for them, when they remember that 

 over these broad mountains, and the spreading plains 

 beyond, their forefathers once hunted the gallant 

 game wheresoever they listed. With Pringle's 

 Captive of Camalu, they might sing : 



" O Camalu, green Camalu ! 

 'Twas there I fed my father's flock, 



Beside the mount where cedars threw 

 At dawn their shadows from the rock ; 



There tended I my father's flock 

 Along the grassy margined rills, 



Or chased the bounding bontebok 

 With hound and spear among the hills." 



On the whole, however, these Kaffirs are 

 contented and happy, and some day in the future, 

 they or their descendants will doubtless become 

 more useful members of the social system of Cape 

 Colony. 



In the soft alluvial soil near the river, one often 

 passes the huge holes of the aard-vark, the Cape 



