The Journal of a Sporting Nomad 
trees amongst the limbs; most of those I saw 
were oblong in shape and pointed at one end. 
I did not notice any bees entering or leaving any 
of these hives, although I looked carefully at 
many of them through my glasses. Honey is 
supposed by some white men I met in this 
region to be responsible for fever. I had fever 
many times, but I can honestly say I did not 
attribute the illness to this cause. [I ate so 
much of it during that trip that had there been 
any truth in the idea I should for certain have 
had chronic malaria. 
Before I left Umtali for the low country, I 
bought a she-donkey as bait for lions. This 
beast had a foal at foot, which I had no use for, 
leaving it behind. It was, I understood, weaned, 
and could do without its dam. I took this donkey 
with me, but had the greatest difficulty to per- 
suade her to go at all. We came to a small 
stream over which three logs had been placed 
to take the place of a foot bridge, and my boys 
pushed and half carried the donkey on to this 
crazy structure. When they were all in the 
centre of it, the logs rolled apart, and into the 
stream went boys, donkey, and what remained 
of the bridge. The water was deep, my boys © 
swam to the bank, which was very steep. I then 
told off another seven or eight to go down and 
help get the donkey out. This was a proceeding 
that was too ludicrous, for several had hold of 
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