CONTENTS. xiii 



CHAPTER XXII. 



" LIONS ! " 



PAGE 



Travelling Habits of the Lion His Haunting the Vicinity of Water Con- 

 duct by Night and by Day A Wearisome Treck The Lion in the 

 Matabele Country The Skulking Hyaenas Wounds of the Natives 

 Livingstone on the South African Lion The Bakatlas and the Lion 

 A Lion's Revenge Livingstone Attacked The Lion's shaking of his 

 Prey The Macalaca and his Musket Our Bay Horse Lions Expected 

 Precautions against Assault or Plunder How Children are often Lost 

 The Notawaney A Frightful Incline " Lion ! " An Uncomfortable 

 Night The Scene of the Lions' Depredation Horse Dead Our People 

 descend from their Trees Collecting our Cattle Bullock shot Dead in 

 mistake for a Lion Bravado Tracing the Spoor Come upon a 

 Lioness Killed on the Spot 246 



OHAPTEE XXIII. 

 ON GORDON CUMMING'S GROUND. 



English Park -like Scenery My Companion does the Shooting We meet a 

 Boer Family A Picnic on the Limpopo The Gentle Art Our Captures 

 The BeUe of the Party A Walk by the River-side A Shriek The 

 Lion wounded to the Death How the Lion was disturbed Boer Women 

 have no Fear of Wild Beasts The Drinking- place of the Animals The 

 Mapaney Bush The Boomslang Tree Gordon Gumming' s Driver A 

 Memorable Tree The Limpopo River The Animals that are found 

 here How I lost a Dog A Fine Night My Pony Restless I replenish 

 the Fires A Yell and a Shot The Dog brained The Panther's Prey 

 A Good Shot Bringing down Hartebeest The Basuto Pony Sick 

 The Symptoms of his Disease On the Spoor of the Giraffe Honey- 

 bird Curious Superstition Bagging my Second Pauw The Black 

 Bullock Dead Swindled Poor Pony Worse His Intense Sufferings 

 Death puts an End to his Agony The Secretary Bird A Fight be- 

 tween One and a Snake Origin of their Name A Peculiar Insect 

 A Gathering of Boers Welcomed Eeligious Service Impressive Scene 259 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



AMONG THE DOPPERS. 



Their Dress and Habits Slavery Opposed to the Missionaries Their 

 probable Errand Hated by the Blacks Conservative Bad Farmers 

 in a splendid Land The Patriarch A Morning Visit Our Conver- 

 sation Suspicions of my Object in Travelling Why not be a Dopper ? 

 Offer to provide a Frow for me The Bible Primitive Notions about 

 the Sun Cornered A High-priced Horse Crocodile- shooting An 

 .Elephant-hunt My Noble, Steed The poor Brute's Wounds and Sores 



