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the daughter of Captain Dunne (Hi Regan) 

 and he put me under treatment, with the result 

 that I was soon better. It was eleven days after 

 the accident when I consulted him, and so deep 

 had been the wound that the bone was still bared. 

 The mark remains to this day. 



Football boots with strips of leather across 

 the sole help to keep one from slipping on 

 slippery stones. Some fishermen always wear 

 leggings, if only to act as a guard against snake- 

 bites. There may be a heavy dew on the grass 

 first thing in the morning, in which case, if long 

 grass has to be encountered on the way to the 

 waterside, stout boots and leggings or long field 

 boots are obviously desirable. 



It is a spacious country. In the dark you 

 can lose your way, with ease, and it is useful to 

 have a compass. Even a farmer friend, who had 

 been long in the country, after fishing the Umgeni 

 until dark, was returning, as he thought, to his 

 hostess's house, when he suddenly realized that he 

 was in the farmyard of an adjoining farm, and near 

 the pigsty ! 



If you go fly-fishing with the sun on the 

 water you will no doubt get arm exercise and 

 possibly some scalies (unless you are on a length 

 with no scalies), but probably no trout. These 

 fish are then taking a siesta. This refers espe- 

 cially to Natal, where there are not many rainbows, 

 though some flourished in a little river at Tet- 

 worth, near Balgowan. In East Griqualand, 

 however, the rainbows up to one pound in 



