CONTENTS. xv 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



I LEAVE SOSHONG. 



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The Cattle at Soshong Lake Bullock Galloway-like Ox Kaffir Ox 

 Mashoona Ox How many of the Cattle lose their Tails Kama's 

 Horses Queer Sheep How they Fight Five Strange Children My 

 Mare Euby Fowl My Goat becomes Food for a Hyaena My Monkey 

 returns to his Mates My Mashoona and Macalaca People leave me A 

 Word for the Macalacas My Departure from Soshong Dilly-dallying 

 of the Blacks Kama's Cattle Kraals Mapaney Tree Bad Luck 

 Stuck in a Eiver-bed One of my Dogs Bolts Birds charmed by a ' 

 Snake End of the Enchantment Seruley Vley I fall in with a 

 German We dine together Bullocks Stampede The German loses a 

 Saulted Horse A Eest A Glimpse at a Leopard Greet and I part . 316 



CHAPTER XXYIII. 



SURROUNDED BY DISAFFECTED SERVANTS. 



Treachery of my Attendants I am a Fat Cow Never lose your Temper to 

 a Kaffir A Charming Spot How an Irishman made a Fortune in the 

 Kalahari Difficulty of Hunting in the Lands of Kama and Sechelle 

 Beware of Fraudulent Devices to take you to good Hunting-ground 

 Visited by Bush-people Improvidence in the Matter of Drinking-water 

 When to Value Water Our aqua pura ! An Improvised Filter 

 Plenty of Snakes Local Belief about Female Snakes .... 329 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



ADVENTURE WITH A LEOPARD. 



Washing, Mending, &c. An Expected Eow Outspanned in a Nasty Place 

 The Attendants crowd to my Fire Ordered to Light their own Fires 

 Eebellious Spirits The Scoundrels leave me en masse A Tedious Night 

 A Visit to my Cattle Splendid Sunrises Massaras Tracking In 

 Presence of Game Zebra wounded A Charge Cruel Work Out for 

 a Eun A Leopard Hit Attacked by the Dogs Macguire comes to 

 Grief The Beast bites the Dust Buffaloes and Leopards Varieties of 

 the African Leopard Arguments in Support of my Theory Meruley- 

 tree A Black Mamba 336 



CHAPTER XXX. 



HUNTING AFTER BIG GAME. 



Mashoona Eice Elephants A Holiday Upset Euby willing Hints about 

 Treatment of Horses Charge of Buffaloes Fate of the Bush-people 

 Danger of Buffaloes A Tusker brought to Grief A Pugnacious Ele- 

 phant Seemingly he won't Die Killed at Last The Guide's Success 

 He Shoots a Ehinoceros Charged by the Brute A Heavy Kick and 



