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that he had partaken of an unlimited meal the pre- 

 ceding night. Thus I estimated that two hundred 

 yards would bring me alongside of the pursued, and 

 had almost decided upon the effort, when my little 

 roan began to indicate that she, too, had had enough ; 

 so, as there was nothing to be gained by killing the 

 skulker, I took a strong hold of her mouth and gradu- 

 ally pulled up. I was glad to find, on examination, 

 that she was not much distressed, for, after relieving 

 her of the saddle, permitting her to roll in the sand, 

 and causing her to stand with her head to the breeze 

 for a few minutes, except for the sweat soils upon her 

 flanks, a stranger would scarcely have been aware that 

 she had lately gone through such a severe spin/" 



A quarter of an hour after I had saddled up, I 

 found the place where I had seen the koodoos the 

 previous day. Here I knee-haltered my nag, and 

 left her to graze until my return. After a walk of 

 several hundred yards, I took a close observation of 

 my surroundings with my Dollond a binocular, let 

 me say here, never surpassed by any field-glass I 



* My saddles were made by Mr. Smith, Strand, next door to 

 Somerset House ; they are a new pattern of his invention, and 

 are simply perfect in ventilation and in comfort to man and beast. 



