Chap. X.] SOUTHERN AFRICA. >S.3 



reach. On the left, the low range of hillocks, 

 already noticed, terminated at some distance in 

 several detached hills — some conical, others table- 

 topped — the white slabs on the sides of these 

 strongly contrasting with the black charred bushes 

 which grew amongst the crevices. A large portion 

 of the country had been set on fire a few weeks 

 before, in order to clear off the withered grass, and 

 the bountiful thunder-clouds having caused the 

 young green blades to make their appearance, large 

 herds of game had been attracted to the spot. At 

 the gorge of these hills was an extensive line of pit- 

 falls, into one of which a hartebeest, whose leg I 

 had broken, fell as I was riding him down — my 

 horse being nearly ingulfed in a second, at the same 

 moment. During the day I killed another impoofo, 

 which actually measured nineteen hands two inches 

 at the shoulder, and was even more remarkably un- 

 wieldy than any we had hitherto seen. 



Our road was now sometimes over a rocky pave- 

 ment, at others over ground which threatened the 

 destruction of the waggons. About 4 o'clock we 

 halted at the Mimori River, only five miles from 

 Mosega. A chain of lakes to the left of our camp 

 contained a herd of wild buffaloes,* whose formid- 

 able heads, resembling masses of rock, were protruded 

 from the water amid waving sedges, the whole of 

 their bodies being immerged. I wounded one, which 

 I attempted to ride down; but the sharp-pointed 

 stones cutt ing the shoeless feet of my horse to pieces, 

 I brought him back to the waggons dead lame. 

 * Bubalus Caffer. Delineated in the African Views. 



