ADVENTURE WITH A SNAKE. 



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A PYTHON. 



CHAPTER XLII. 



MR. CUMMINGS' ADVENTURE WITH A SNAKE. 



N the 25th, after breakfast, I started with bed 

 ding and provisions to hunt for a few days on 

 the other side of the hills. We visited the 

 first water, and established a place of conceal- 

 ment with rocks and green boughs on the rock. 

 While we were making this bothy a wild boai 

 hove in view, but, observing us, he escaped, 

 We then held on to the further ravine, and on my way thither I 

 nearly rode down a fine old bastard gemsbok, which got away 

 among the rocks. I repaired an old hiding-hole at this water 



