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Division of Cape Province). In the 1911 season, 

 when the Mooi river, East Griqualand, was first 

 opened, Mr. Manley landed, on the fly, over two 

 hundred rainbow trout, each over 2 Ibs. We 

 had no luck at all on our one visit to the Mooi, 

 and were sorry chiefly because of the disappoint- 

 ment to the sergeant-major (a Surrey man) of the 

 district police force, who had himself taken much 

 trouble in the hope of ensuring sport for us, and 

 who was a true brother to all anglers. On this 

 river in April, 1914, the late Major the Hon. C. 

 B. Mitford, who fell gloriously in France, Captain 

 Houston, and Sir Basil Brooke had wonderful 

 sport. They also fished the Wildebeeste. Their 

 total bag on a short holiday was one hundred 

 trout weighing one hundred and fifty-five pounds. 

 They put back all trout under one pound. 



From Maclear it was our fortune to proceed 

 by Cape cart to new headquarters, a farmhouse in 

 the direction of the Drakensberof. Our baskets now 



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began to assume some importance. A couple of 

 hundred yards from the homestead was a stream, 

 the little Pot, and it was full of iridescent rainbows. 

 They were real Afrikanders, loving the sun. 

 Morning, noon, evening, they rose to the wet fly, 

 any fly. My friend from Aberdeen was justified 

 in his hopefulness. It was proving better further 

 on. These rainbows, averaQ-ing about half a 



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pound, fought so furiously, that a man of Devon 

 might have thought himself back on Dartmoor or 

 Exmoor. A son of Usk might have remembered 

 Brecon. Once I saw a good rise over what 



