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horses and whatever else they could lay their hands 

 upon. 



Apprehensive of another attack from lions, we 

 moved in the afternoon to the opposite side of the 

 river, drawing up the waggons on the tops of a hil- 

 lock, in such a manner as to flank the cattle enclo- 

 sure — an arrangement which we ever afterwards 

 observed. Our friends the Batlapi returned about 

 sunset with the oxen, which they had found twelve 

 miles oflf, a piece of service for which, according to 

 agreement, they were rewarded with a yard of to- 

 bacco and a tinder-box. Cobus and Andries also 

 came back during the night, having galled the backs 

 of both the horses, without obtaining any tidings 

 of the lost one. The whole of the following day 

 was passed in fruitless endeavours to recover the 

 truant, and it was not until six months afterwards, 

 that we ascertained he had returned to ihe farm on 

 which he had been bred in the New Hantam, a 

 distance of five hundred miles. 



