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CHAPTER X. 



In the Jungle — Elephant-stalking— Soiree Musicale — Cotton-spinning 

 — Zebras running away — Deputation of the Chief's Wives — A Cool 

 Request — Sitting in Presence of the First White Man — The River 

 Kamvoo — A Sight for the Natives — Appearance of the Country — 

 An African Blacksmith — Interview with Marimba — Lost in the 

 Forest — A Hard Day's Work — Industrious Tribe — Bird-netting — 

 Attack of Illness — Marimba's Present — An Opening for Trade — 

 Castor-oil Plant — Contoonda — Interview with a Drunk Old Man — 

 Inhospitable Cliiefs — " Bonnie Dundee" — A ViUage entered by 

 Force — Again on the move. 



THE following morning I was told off to escort 

 Cotondway and his mob to the field of battle, 

 and by three o'clock in the afternoon nothing re- 

 mained in the forest of the five buffaloes but their 

 bones. Taking the same guide with me, 1 started to 

 return home by another route, in the hope of getting 

 a shot. About five o'clock, seeing a very fine water- 

 buck, and proceeding to stalk him, I had reached 

 within a little over two hundred yards of him, when he 

 turned round and commenced feeding towards me. I 

 lay down flat at once, and while awaiting the approach 

 of the buck in this position, the sound of the snapping 

 of a large branch suddenly burst on my ears. This 

 was followed by a long rumbling sound, and Moloka 



