FIVE YEARS' HUNTING 

 ADVENTURES IN SOUTH AFRICA. 



CHAPTER I. 



Preparations for a Hunting Expedition — Cape Traders — Traveling 

 Trader at a Farm — Dangers of a Trader's Life — Articles for Barter- 

 Dissuasions from the Enterprise — My Outfit — Hunting Rlieebok — 

 Wild Flowers. 



Having resolved to make a hunting expedition into 

 the interior 'of Southern Africa, my first object was to 

 seek out some experienced person, able to give me the 

 necessary information as to what purchases I should 

 require to make in the way of wagons and oxen, and 

 as to my outfit in general, and I accordingly pitched 

 upon an individual of the name of Murphy, a trader in 

 the interior, who, I had reason to believe, was better 

 acquamted than any other person in Grahamstown 

 with the frontiers of the colony, and the adjoining ter- 

 ritories of the Griqua and Bechuana tribes, situated 

 beyond the Great Orange River. With this person I 

 had already had the pleasure of becoming acquainted 

 durino- the short time I was quartered in Grahamstown 

 in the month of July, haying been introduced to him 

 by another trader, a man from my own land of Moray, 

 famous among the Dutch Boers about and beyond the 

 frontiers. This man's name was Andrew Thompson, 

 of Forres, one of three brothers, all of whom followed 

 the same adventurous line of life, and were as steady, 



