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CHAPTER VII 



The Springbuck Drive The Bushman Caves 117 

 Return to Gamoep .... 



CHAPTER VIII 



The Summer Clouds News of Rain Start for 

 Pella The Vedic Hymns Digging for 

 Water Arrival at Pella Terrible Heat 

 The Tribe Aquinas in the Wilderness The 

 Mission The River Gorge The Tarantula 

 Invasion 134 



CHAPTER IX 



Morning in the Gorge Departure from Pella 

 Journey to Brabies Protection of the Oryx 

 Its Peculiarities Antelopes of the Desert 

 and the Forest Camping at Brabies . . 155 



CHAPTER X 

 The Oryx Hunt Terrible Thirst Prehistoric 



Weapons 165 



CHAPTER XI 



The Richtersveld Kuboos The Vicar of Wake- 

 field Redivivus Gold-seeking The Raad 

 Morbid Sensibility Start for El Dorado . 180 



CHAPTER XII 



Expedition to the River Flora and Fauna The 

 Pneumoras Abnormal Springbuck The 

 Sea-fog Wild Horses Fauna and Bimini . 203 



CHAPTER XIII 



Kamiebies The Blossoming Wilderness The 

 Ostrich Poachers Hail Storms The 

 Springbuck Behind the Dune How Andries 

 Found Me 228 



L'Enyoi ,.,,,... 249 



