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HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



wagons, and two or three cups of coffee soon restored me to mj 

 wonted vigor. 



On the following morning, from earliest dawn until we trekked, 

 which we did about 10 A. M., large herds of game kept pouring 

 in to drink from evsry side, completely covering the open space, 

 and imparting to it the appearance of a cattle fair ; blue wilde- 

 beests, zebras, sassaybies, pallahs, springboks, &c., capered fear- 

 .essly up to the water, troop after troop, within two hundred yards 

 jf us. In former years a tribe of Bechuanas had frequented this 

 fountain, and I beheld the skeletons of many rhinoceroses and of 

 one elephant bleaching in the sun ; but the powerful and cruel 

 Matabili had attacked the tribe, and driven them to seek a home 

 elsewhere. I shot a pallah and a wildebeest, which we secured 

 behind the wagons. About 10 A. M. we inspanned, and within 

 a mile of Lepeby we passed through another similar open vley, 

 containing a strong fountain of delicious water. We. continued 

 our march till sundown through an undulating open country, 

 thinly covered with detached trees and thorny bushes, and en- 

 camped in a sandy desert without water. 



