CONTENTS OF VOL. 11. 



CHAPTER XVII 

 We march from Sabie — Track along a River-bed — The dry Grass on 

 Fire for Miles — Glorious Elejihant shooting — Cowardice of my Aft^r- 

 ridcr — Strange Circumstance at the Death of a Bull Elephant — A sa- 

 ble Antelope — Tete-a-tete with a disabled Elephant — The Klip- 

 springer Antelope — A Pack of wild Dogs capture and kill a Koodoo 

 — The coming of Summer — Vast Numbers of Birds visiting the Fount- 

 ains — My trusty two-grooved Rifle bursts — My Snuffers, Spoons, and 

 Candlesticks melted for Bullets — Elephants taking a Douche Bath — 

 Two of them slain — Yet more Elephants — My Horse Colesberg dies 

 of the African Distemper — Virulence of the Scourge Page 9 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

 Turn my Wagons toward the Colony — A Troop of Elephants in Indian 

 File — Splendid Sport among them — Two of them break their Tusks 

 in falling — The Rainy Season commences — Erection of a Bothy — 

 The gigantic Nwaua-tree — Sicomy's Mountain Kraal — Four of his 

 Subjects become my S<-rvants — Corriebely — The Natives astonishea 

 by my finding a Mine of Lead — Elephant shooting — Leave the Land 

 of Elephants — BoStlonamy — Terrific Thunder-storm 26 



CHAPTER XIX. 



AH my Colonial Servants desert me — Pursue them in vain — Both Wau 

 ons get disabled — Melancholy Anticipations — Cut a Path through thp 

 Forest — A sandy Desert — Cattle dying for Want of Water — Troubles 

 surmounted — Pallahs and Koodoos — A Lion and Leopard visit the 

 Camp at Afidnight — Another Horse dies of Distemper — We reach 

 Booby — One of the Axle-trees breaks — The Bakatlas assist me— Fhe 

 Baggage-wagon upset in a River — The Distemper kills more Horses 

 — Lions roaring — Arrival at Dr. Livingstone's — March upon Chou- 

 aney — The Ngotwaui — A Herd of Buffaloes ajnong the Reeds .. 42 



CHAPTER XX. 



Arrive at Sichely's Kraal — Description of that Chief — His Wives — The 

 Rain-makers — My Gun Medicine — Bakatla — A Kraal struck by 

 Lightning — Reach Mr. Moffat's Station at Kuruman — Daring Rob- 

 beries of the Bushmen — Campbellsdorp — Discover myrimaway Hot- 

 tentots — We cross the Vaal — The Inmates of a Farm terrified by my 

 wild Appearance — Colesberg and Grahamstowu — English Hounds in 

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