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and after dinner the flour was served out to the 

 servants for their evening meal. Any arrangements 

 were now made for the day following. H. and 1 

 sat by the camp fire, generally played a tune upon 

 my banjo, and then, after enjoying a smoke, we 

 turned in to rest. 



After dinner is one of the pleasantest times in 

 this beautiful climate ; the stars shine brightly, and 

 from the place where we were now encamped the con- 

 stellations, both of the Great Bear and the Southern 

 Cross, could be seen. For the last week I had been 

 so unwell that I had not written up my journal. 

 Symptoms of dysentery had appeared, and I was 

 afraid I should be laid up. During this week H. 

 had been out shooting, and he and Barrakee had the 

 luck between them to kill a large koodoo. Of course 

 all hands in camp were delighted, and a great portion 

 of the meat was "jerked," that is to say, hung up in 

 the sun and dried. We found, at first, this jerked 

 meat was very hard to eat, but by grinding it be- 

 tween two stones, mixing it with a little rice, fat, 

 and onions, and then making it into a sort of rissole 

 and frying it, it did not make at all a bad meal. 



One day during this week H. went out after 

 elephants, and saw a very large herd ; he said there 

 must have been about eighty of them, but when the 



