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that are to be found in any other part of the 

 world. 



The truth of the above remarks is known to so 

 many that it is unnecessary to add further to them, 

 so we will at once proceed to the table lands be- 

 tween the Limpopo and Zambesi, definitely named 

 Mashoona Land, where, not a long time back, stood 

 my hunting camp. A part of this plateau is nearly 

 five thousand feet above sea level, so, although 

 it may be intensely warm there under the vertical 

 sun, night and early morning are cool and in- 

 vigorating; quite sufficiently so, in fact, to brace you 

 up after the lassitude you may have suffered during 

 the previous noon-day heat. Then no inconvenience 

 or worry from mosquitoes is experienced, unless 

 your halting-place be in the immediate vicinity of 

 marsh or stagnant water. The country here is, 

 moreover, not the same uninteresting dead flats, 

 covered with nought else but grass, peculiar to the 

 Orange Free State, portions of Griqualand, and the 

 Old Colony, but a constant succession of rolling hills 

 well supplied with wood, while water in localities is 

 abundant. Of course, droughts occur in Southern 

 Equatorial Africa as they do elsewhere, but they 

 never have the same lasting and deleterious effect that 

 they produce in the territories adjoining the great 

 Kalihari Desert. Thus the constant anxiety that is 

 experienced by the traveller in the South and West 

 of Africa, for fear he shall not reach water by a 



