HUNTING IN SOUTHERN AFRICA. 



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MOSELEKATSE. 



" Both the Sicklagole and the Meritsane take their source 

 in the low range of hills called Kunuana, considerably to the 

 eastward of the point where we crossed them ; and, joining 

 about the same distance to the westward, empty themselves 

 into the Molopo. Near their confluence the camp of Mr. 

 Bain, a trader, was attacked in 1834, by Moselekatse. 

 A party of marauding Griquas, whom he had imprudently 

 taken with him to assist in hunting, entered the territories 

 of that prince, and succeeded in capturing several head of 

 cattle, with which they had made good their retreat. A large 

 party of warriors, however, overtook them when within sight 

 of the camp ; nearly all the followers fled in disorder on the 

 first alarm, leaving their master to shift for himself, who, 

 finding the camp surrounded and resistance vain, jumped on 

 his horse, and, accompanied by four of his people, narrowly 



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