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brought out with them a pack of fox-hounds, which 

 while they lasted, afforded excellent sport, but, unfor- 

 tunately, the climate of Southern Africa, especially near 

 the coast, is so very unfavorable for well-bred English 

 dogs, that, although no trouble nor expense was spared 

 in the management of these hounds, and fresh drafts 

 were constantly exported from England, and litters of 

 pups carefully reared in the colony, the pack neverthe- 

 less had considerably diminished. These hounds were 

 under the especial surveillance of Captain Hogg, who 

 hunted them in a manner which evinced his consum- 

 mate skill and judgment in the manly and ennobling 

 pursuit of the chase. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Bet out again for the Far Interior — Fort Beaufort — Purchnse fresh 

 Steeds and Oxen — My old Servant Carolltis rejoins me — Elephant 

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

 very decidedly with Sicomy — Horses and Oxen taken in Pits — Two 

 Dogs killed by a Leopard — A File of Bakalahari Women carrying 

 Water to the J)esert — A sleeping Rhinoceros shot. — Hunting in the 

 Neighborhood of Lotlokane and Letlocbee — The Natives kill an F,le- 

 pliant — 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 CONTINUED in Grahamstown until the 7th day of 

 March, when I set out once more on my weary journey 

 for the distant forests of the far interior. Before leav- 

 ing the town I settled my accounts with the merchants 

 from whom I had obtained supplies, and who evidently 

 seemed to consider my returning to the colony as a very 



