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the Kouloubeng, having directed my men to follow with 

 the wagons. 



On arriving at the station, I found that Mr. Living- 

 stone had left that morning to visit a tribe to the east 

 uf the Limpopo. I waited upon Mrs. Livingstone, 

 who regaled with me with tea and bread and butter, 

 and gave me all the news. I remained a week in the 

 station, and on the 12th I inspanned. At sundown we 

 halted near the Pass of God, intending to hunt sable 

 antelope, having seen a small troop of them in the 

 month of May on a steep mountain side, beneath which 

 T formed my camp. 



CHAPTER XXXm. 



The Pass of God — Hunt Sable and Roan Antelope — Sesetabie — My 

 Cattle-losses in five Expeditious — My Cattle desperate for want of 

 Water — Trading with Mahura — Inspauning young Oxen — We cross 

 the Vaal River — The Country densely covered with Game — An Os- 

 trich's Nest — Bloem Vonteyn — Multitudes of Antelope Skeletons 

 cover the Plains — The Great Orange River — We are detained by the 

 Flood — Twenty-three Men drowned in attempting to cross — We have 

 to take the Wagons to Pieces — Determine to revisit Old England 

 and transport my Collection of Trophies thither. 



Next morning I rode through the Pass of God and 

 held west, accompanied by two after-riders. I rode to 

 within a couple of miles of the Kouloubeng, and return. 

 ed close in under the mountain chain to the south of the 

 pass. I went forth on foot, accompanied by Ruyter, 

 and ascended the mountain immediately above my 

 camp to seek for sable antelope. I had the satisfac- 

 tion to discover the spoor of three bucks on a piece of 

 rocky table-ground on the highest summit of the range, 



