IN AUSTRAL AFRICA. 3O/ 



mein Got ! vat a verdamd Englander" But this 

 was not by long odds the most remarkable of my 

 bay's performances, as you doubtless will think when 

 I narrate the following : — 



I left Kania, in the country of Hasesheba, at 

 6 p.m., and reached Lininkani (the distance being 

 seventy miles) before six the next morning. Over 

 part of the country traversed there was no road, and 

 I lost myself for quite two hours, the night being very 

 dark, while the latter portion of my journey was 

 exceedingly stony. After fourteen or fifteen hours 

 I was again in the saddle, and reached the diamond 

 fields in Griqualand in five days, the last distance 

 covered being two hundred and forty miles, and 

 some of it over the most villainous loose sand 

 imaginable. As I was travelling at night, to avoid 

 meeting marauding parties of Boers, then invading 

 Monsewa's and Moncoran's country, I was only 

 able to procure grain twice for my own mount and 

 that of my after-rider. 



This after-rider was said to be a son of the re- 

 doubtable Nimrod, Gordon Cumming, and was the 

 only red-headed black man I ever saw. He rode a 

 small, black stallion, purchased by me from a trader 

 who had captured it from the Boers, and I seriously 

 affirm that this far from good-looking horse seemed 

 to freshen up to his work the further we progressed. 

 Now, as both of us were six-footers, and each 

 weighed close on twelve stone, this I hold was a 



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