A CHIEF FLOGGED. 1C9 



perfect tusks. When the wagons came up, I found 

 myself minus another steed : a fine young mare had 

 fallen into a Bakalahari pitfall, and had been suffocated. 



On the 5th I rode down the river and fell in with a 

 large herd of about thirty hippopotami : they lay upon 

 some rocks in the middle of a very long and broad pool. 

 I wounded seven or eight of these in the head, and 

 killed two, a bull and a cow, both of which we found 

 next day. At night the lions prowled around our camp, 

 and fought with the dogs until the morning: they came 

 boldly in between the fires of the natives, who lay around 

 my camp. 



The next day I ordered my wagons to come on, and 

 rode ahead to the pool where I had last shot. When 

 the wagons came up, I detected the head Bakalahari 

 of the kraal beside which my mare had been killed , 

 he was talking with my cattle herds, with whom he 

 seemed to be on very intimate terms. This killing of 

 my horse was either intentional or most culpably care- 

 less, as the pits were left covered, and the cattle driven 

 to pasture in the middle of them ; I accordingly deemed 

 it proper that this man should be made an example of; 

 so, calling to my English servant, Carey, to assist me, 

 we each seized an arm of the guilty chief, and I then 

 caused Hendric to flog him with a sea-cow jambok ; 

 after which I admonished him, and told him that if the 

 holes were not opened in future, I would make a more 

 severe example as I proceeded. The consequence of 

 this salutary admonition was, that all the pitfalls along 

 the river were thrown open in advance of my march, a 

 thing which I had never before seen'among the Bechu- 

 ana tribes. In the afternoon I rode down the river a fev/ 

 pools, and found a very fine herd of about thirty hippo- 

 potami. I wounded three or four of these, and killed one 



Vo,., II.—H 



