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CHAPTER XXI. 

 Set out again for the Far Interior — Fort Beaufort — Purchase fresn 

 Steeds and Oxen — My old Servant CaroUiis rejoins me — Elejiliant 

 Fountain once more — Hunt Elepliants — Corriebely — Obliged to act 

 very decidedly with Sicomy — Horses and Oxen taken in I'its — Two 

 Dogs killed by a Leopard — A File of Bakalaliari Woirieu canying 

 Water to the Desert — A sleejuug Rhinoceros shi)t. — Hunting in the 

 Neighborhood of Lotlokane and Lellocbee — The Natives kill an Ele- 

 phant — A grim Lion slain — Rheumatic Fever attacks me — Leave 

 Bamangwato Country — The Game disturbed by Natives — Soobie — 

 Watch nightly for Game from a Place of Ambush — Vanquish a noble 

 Lioness ^ I'age 74 



CHAPTER XXIL 

 A Lion shot from my Watching-hole at Midnight — Six Lions drink close 

 beside me — A Lioness slain — A Rhinoceros bites the Dust — Moslakose 

 Fountain — My Shooting-hole surrounded with Game — Pallahs, Sas- 

 saybies, Zebras, &c. — A Rhooze-Rheebok shot — Extraordinary Cir- 

 cumstance — My fiftieth Elephant bagged — Interesting Fouutains on 

 the Hills— Leave my Wagons for the Hills — Struggle with a Boa 

 Constrictor — Lions too numerous to be agreeable — Five Rhiuoceroses 

 shot as they came to driuk — A venomous Snake 94 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

 Sichely's Kraal again — The Ngotwani — The loose Cattle are lost — 

 Chase and kill a Water-buck — A Portion of the Cattle recovered — A 

 Leopard bayed by my Dogs and slain — Bufialo-shooting beside the 

 Ngotwani — A Lion feeds on the Carcass — My Horse knocked down 

 by the King of Brates — Meet a grim Lion Face to Face at Midnight! 

 — He sheers off — These Animals unpleasantly bold — An amusing 

 Chase with a Buffalo — Interesting Stalk in rocky Ground — Leave my 

 Hunting-ground and encamp on the Vaal River — Great Herds — In 

 taking the Drift a Wagon sticks fast in the Middle of the River — Great 

 Fear of losing all my Property — Rescue of the Wagon — Colesberg — 

 A Farmer's \Vagon capsized in the Fish River — Visit Strydom's Farm 

 and liud it Desolate — Arrival at Grahamstown 112 



CHAPTER XXIV. 

 Start on another Elephant-shooting Expedition — The Hart River — Nu- 

 merous Pack of Wild Dogs — Mahura, Chief of the Batlapis — Rumors 

 of Wars — The Meritsane — Lotlokane — Encounter with two Lions on 

 the Molopo — Chouaney — A tremendous Fight with a Buffalo — The 

 River Limpopo — Huge Crocodiles — A splendid Hippopotamus falls 

 to my Rifle — Immense Herds of Buffalo crossing the River — The 



