CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Preparations for a Hunting Expedition — Cape Traders — Traveinig — 

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

 Dissuasions from the Enterprise — iV'Jy Outfit — Hunting Rlieebok — 

 Wild Flowers » I'age 17 



CHAPTER n. 

 Mysteries of Inspanning — Cape Wagon and its Furniture — Departure 

 from Grahamstown — My head Servant leaves me — Impassable State 

 of the Roads — My Wagon in a Fix — Change of Route — Singular In- 

 stinct of the Honey-bird 32 



CHAPTER III. 

 Fearful Descent of Do Bruin's Poort — District lately deserted by Ele- 

 phants — Noble Forest-trees — The Great Fish River — Cunning Boers 

 — Burning Effects of the Sun — The Dutch No6's Green Tea Oint- 

 ment — Skill of the Hottentots in " Tapping the Admiral" — Beauti- 

 fully wooded Country — The Village of Cradock — South African Cli. 

 mate — Countless Herds of Springbok — Mynheer Pocheter — The 

 Way to make a Friend on the Thebus Flats — Hendric Strydom — 

 Hunting for Springbok — Extraordinary Migrations of these Ante- 

 lopes 51 



CHAPTER IV. 

 A Bustard shot — Flight of Locusts — Quagga Shooting in the Dark- 

 Curious Mistake — Ostriches — A Sportsman napping — Leave Stry- 

 dom's Residence in quest of Wildebeests — Wildebeest Shooting — 

 Meeting with a Brother Officer — Proceed to Colesberg — Additions lo 

 Equipments 73 



CHAPTER V. 



Departure from Colesberg — Jaging Springbok — Vast Herds of Game- 

 Swarms of Flies — Oology — A Nomade Boer's Encampment — Anec- 

 dote of the Gemsbok — Cobus rides down a splendid old Bull Gems- 

 bok — A Night in the Desert — Paterson arrives — Bushmen — Their ex- 

 traordiuarv Raids across tho Desert 88 



