Xll 



CONTENTS. 



Chapter XL. 



A Grand Country. The Food Supply. Bad Shoot- 

 ing. Gluttony at the Mansion House. Abun- 

 dant Spoor of Game. A Pugnacious Old Cow. 

 A Veteran Soldier. Portuguese Tabooed. An- 

 cient Stone Works. Rejoin Dillon. Living- 

 stone's Description of Tete. Tete and its 

 Environs. Slavery. Coal. Convict Soldiers ... 



PAGES 



250 — 280 



Life on the Hight Veldt and Country West 

 of Matabele Land 



Hunting Favourites in Austral Africa 

 A Hottentot Patriot 

 Female Heroism 

 Belief in Ghosts ... 



291 

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 329 

 337 



