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high preservation to Cape Town ; where, in October 

 last, it was elegantly set up by Monsieur Verreaux, 

 the French naturalist, and obligingly taken to 

 England by my well-known friend Captain Alex- 

 ander, 42nd Royal Highlanders. 



Notwithstanding the arrangements made by Um- 

 'Nombate, our escort was daily becoming more 

 unruly and impatient ; and upon our attempting to 

 move some miles further to the eastward, in order, 

 if possible, to obtain a female specimen of the new 

 species, they positively refused to accompany us in 

 any direction but that of the Vaal River. The 

 most tempting bribes failed to shake their resolu- 

 tion ; and upon our threatening to send an express 

 to the king, for which duty Andrics eagerly volun- 

 teered, they sat sullenly grinding tobacco with the 

 most calm and prpvoking inditference. The mur- 

 rain having attacked our oxen, and the horses, 

 moreover, being so galled and reduced in condition 

 that many were unfit for further work, it was resolved, 

 that since the objects of our expedition had been thus 

 far fully accomplished, we should at once set out 

 on our return to the Colony by the unexplored route. 



Right joyfully was this announcement received 

 by our followers. Ever discontented with their 

 present lot, the Hottentots had long impatiently 

 sighed for the drunken brawls of the canteen, and 

 the bewitching smiles of their absent sweethearts. 

 Coeur de Lion could instantly perceive in dim per- 

 spective the auspicious termination of his perils by 

 sea and land ; nor was the worshipper of the cow, 



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