4 THE HUNTER'S ARCADIA. 



beast, but lubricate many and many a mile of valley 

 that would grow the necessaries of life for the sus- 

 tenance of a modern principality. 



The youth of the present day think old men 

 croakers ; the matured man believes that the rising 

 generation have deteriorated. In our fathers' and 

 grandfathers' days no doubt the same opinions 

 swayed them ; but I feel confident that the mis- 

 sionaries of a past generation those men, we will say, 

 who occasionally formed banquets for the untutored 

 savage were infinitely superior to those persons who 

 follow the same avocation at the present time. 



After a rest of ten or twelve days at this earthly 

 paradise, my bullocks being as fat and fit as good 

 pasture, abundance of water and rest could make 

 them, I pushed ahead to the north, resolved not to 

 shoot till forty or fifty miles intervened between me 

 and my starting-point. The roads were good, and 

 the sand seldom heavy ; thus my cavalcade averaged 

 in its progress nothing less than twenty miles a day. 

 Where I had arrived differed but little from the 

 country that surrounded Kooruman ; rolling hills, 

 sparsely covered with brush, valleys clothed with 

 sorghum and mealies, with here and there an occa- 



